Journal article
Contributions of attentional style and previous experience to 4-month-old infants’ categorization
Infancy, Vol.17(3), pp.324-338
2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00073.x
PMCID: PMC3329154
PMID: 22523478
Abstract
We examined how infants’ categorization is jointly influenced by previous experience and how much they shift their gaze back-and-forth between stimuli. Extending previous findings reported by
Kovack-Lesh, Horst, and Oakes (2008)
, we found that 4-month-old infants’ (
N
= 122) learning of the exclusive category of
cats
was related to whether they had cats at home and how much they shifted attention between two available stimuli during familiarization. Individual differences in attention assessed in an unrelated task were not related to their categorization. Thus, infants’ learning is multiply influenced by past experience and on-line attentional style.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Contributions of attentional style and previous experience to 4-month-old infants’ categorization
- Creators
- Kristine A Kovack-Lesh - Ripon CollegeLisa M Oakes - The University of California, DavisBob McMurray - The University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Infancy, Vol.17(3), pp.324-338
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2011.00073.x
- PMID
- 22523478
- PMCID
- PMC3329154
- NLM abbreviation
- Infancy
- ISSN
- 1525-0008
- eISSN
- 1532-7078
- Grant note
- R01 HD056018-01A2 || HD / National Institute of Child Health & Human Development : NICHD
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2012
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders; Linguistics; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070430602771
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