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Quinn, Paul C. – Psychological Record, 2005
Vidic and Haaf (2004) questioned the idea that infants use head information to categorize cats as distinct from dogs (Quinn & Eimas, 1996) and argued instead that the torso region is important. However, only null results were observed in the critical test comparisons between modified and unmodified stimuli. In addition, a priori preferences for…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Infants, Classification, Infant Behavior