The cause of infant categorization

@article{citeulike:2300508, abstract = {We asked whether infants are sensitive to causal relations between objects and outcomes and whether this sensitivity supports categorization. Fourteen- and 18-month-old infants were familiarized with objects from a novel category. For some, the objects caused an electronic toy to activate. For others, the objects were present during activation of the toy, but did not cause the event. For the remaining infants, the events were never activated. Infants were asked to select another category member from a pair of previously unseen objects (one from the familiar, and one from a novel, category). Infants were more likely to select the category match in the causal than the non-causal and no outcome conditions, suggesting that they capitalize on causal information in forming object categories.}, author = {Booth, Amy E. }, citeulike-article-id = {2300508}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.012}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {category-learning, semantic-development, semantic-organization}, month = {February}, number = {2}, pages = {984--993}, posted-at = {2008-01-29 02:25:04}, priority = {2}, title = {The cause of infant categorization}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.012}, volume = {106}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2300508 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2300508 TI - The cause of infant categorization JF - Cognition VL - 106 IS - 2 SP - 984 EP - 993 N2 - We asked whether infants are sensitive to causal relations between objects and outcomes and whether this sensitivity supports categorization. Fourteen- and 18-month-old infants were familiarized with objects from a novel category. For some, the objects caused an electronic toy to activate. For others, the objects were present during activation of the toy, but did not cause the event. For the remaining infants, the events were never activated. Infants were asked to select another category member from a pair of previously unseen objects (one from the familiar, and one from a novel, category). Infants were more likely to select the category match in the causal than the non-causal and no outcome conditions, suggesting that they capitalize on causal information in forming object categories. KW - category-learning KW - semantic-development KW - semantic-organization AU - Booth, Amy PY - 2008/02// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.012 ER -