The role of labels and motions in infant category learning

Sucevic, Jelena, Althaus, Nadja and Plunkett, Kim (2021) The role of labels and motions in infant category learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 205. ISSN 0022-0965

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Abstract

We investigated the impact of two highly salient transient features, labels and motions, on novel visual category learning in 10-month-old infants. In three eye-tracking experiments, infants were presented with exemplars from two novel categories either accompanied by category-specific labels, accompanied by category-specific motions, or in silence. Labels (Experiment 1) and motions (Experiment 2) were presented using a gaze-contingent design in which these transient features were triggered by infants’ fixations. Gaze-contingent transient features, despite being redundant, had a strong impact on categorization. The results revealed that both labels and motions support infants’ category formation. Furthermore, both labels and motions promoted similarity-focused exploration, whereas no such pattern was found when infants learned the categories in silence. Analyses of visual exploration patterns revealed that infants readily form expectations about motion properties of categories and that these expectations drive their looking behavior.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	category learning,gaze-contingent eye-tracking paradigm,infants,labels,motion,transient features,experimental and cognitive psychology,developmental and educational psychology,4*,shows that the facilitation effect reported in infant categorisation with labels is not unique to language. ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3205
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2021 00:54
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 09:35
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/78177
DOI:	10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105062

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