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Form categorization in 10-month-olds.

J Colombo1, K McCollam, J T Coldren

  • 1Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|April 1, 1990
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Infants can learn object categories, but only if they experience variations in features like color during learning. Novel colors are recognized if color variation was part of the initial learning process.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Perception and Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Infants form object categories to understand their world.
  • The role of stimulus variation in early category learning is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how 10-month-old infants form object categories.
  • To determine the impact of color variation during habituation on form categorization.

Main Methods:

  • Habituation and paired-comparison tests were used with 10-month-old infants.
  • Color was manipulated during habituation and/or test phases.
  • Stimuli varied in form and color.

Main Results:

  • Infants successfully categorized form when color was constant or varied during habituation.

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  • Categorization failed when infants habituated to color-constant stimuli were tested with novel colors.
  • Subsequent experiments confirmed that limited color experience during habituation caused this failure.

    • Conclusions:

    • Infants' category representations exclude stimulus dimensions not varied during initial learning.
    • Experiencing variation in a dimension (e.g., color) allows infants to generalize to novel instances of that dimension within a category.