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Infants Flexibly Use Different Dimensions to Categorize Objects
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Ellis, Ann E.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
A sequential-touching task was used to investigate whether 14-month-old infants can rapidly change how they categorize a set of objects, recognizing new groupings of objects they had previously categorized in a different way. When presented with a collection of objects that could be categorized by shape (balls vs. blocks) or material (soft vs.…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Sequential Approach, Dimensional Preference