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Brain Activity Differentiates Face and Object Processing in 6-Month-Old Infants.
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de Haan, Michelle; Nelson, Charles A. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Used event-related potentials to determine whether infants show differences in spatial and temporal characteristics of brain activation during face and object recognition. Found that infants' experience with specific examples within categories and their general category knowledge influenced the neural correlates of visual processing. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Brain, Classification, Infants, Perceptual Development
Parts, Partonomies, and Taxonomies.
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Tversky, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Five experiments involving children of 4-11 years investigated partonomic knowledge and its relation to the use of taxonomic organization. Results suggest that children are sensitive to parts of common objects and appear to be able to use this sensitivity to group objects in abstract, function-based, superordinate categories. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Ability
Development of Visual Pattern Classification in Preschool Children: Prototypes and Distinctive Features
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Williams, Tannis MacBeth; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Perceptual Development, Preschool Children
Features of Style Classification: A Multivariate Experimental Analysis of Children's Responses to Drawings.
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O'Hare, David; Westwood, Helen – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Investigates the sensitivity of children aged 6 to 10 to stylistic properties of line drawings. Subjects were asked to judge the similarity of 12 drawings which varied along the dimensions of clarity, expressiveness, and line thickness. In contrast to previous research, the youngest children had the ability to make multidimensional…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Children, Classification, Perceptual Development
Spatial Analysis: An Examination of Preschoolers' Perception and Construction of Geometric Patterns.
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Feeney, Suzanne Mendoza; Stiles, Joan – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Children 3.5 to 5 years old were asked to judge which of several possible sets of parts matched a configured target form and to copy the target forms. Found a significant association between age and performance on the perception task and consistency across the two tasks. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Geometry, Perceptual Development
Perceptual Sensitivity, Integral Perception, and the Similarity Classifications of Preschool Children and Adults.
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Odom, Richard D.; Cook, Gregory L. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Assesses preschoolers' and adults' relative ability to solve classification problems in which a similarity criterion is the only criterion appropriate for solution. Also investigates effects of the salience of individual dimensions on solution-relevant similarity classifications. (AS)
Descriptors: Classification, Developmental Stages, Perceptual Development, Pictorial Stimuli
Perceptual and Logical Factors in the Development of Multiplicative Classification
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Overton, Willis F.; Brodzinsky, David – Developmental Psychology, 1972
The development of multiplicative classificatory skills in children between 4 and 9 years of age was investigated by means of two forms of the matrix-completion task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Development of the Structure of Color Categories
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Investigated two developmental implications: (1) that foci for color categories become established and stabilized earlier than boundaries, and (2) that focal judgments are always more stable than boundary judgments. Subjects were 20 kindergarteners, 40 third graders and 40 adults. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Color
By Land or by Sea: The Role of Perceptual Similarity in Infants' Categorization of Animals.
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Oakes, Lisa M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Infants were familiarized with plastic animals from one of two categories (land or sea) that were judged similar or variable by adults. Infants were then tested with novel animals from the same or a different category. Thirteen-month-olds in the similar familiarization condition dishabituated to novel animals of a different category and, to a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Animals, Classification, Infants
Auditory Pattern Classification: Continuity of Prototype Use with Development
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Williams, Tannis MacBeth; Aiken, Leona S. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Development of the ability to classify auditory patterns was studied at grades 2, 6, 10, and 12 and at adult age levels. Both accuracy and feature use in classification were consistent across age; the age changes that did occur appeared to be due to differences in perception rather than process. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Classification