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Strauss, Mark S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The ability of preverbal infants to abstract a prototypical representation of a category, when presented with examples of an artifically constructed category, was investigated. It was determined that infants could process visual information constructively and could take a more active role in category formation than previously believed. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Classification, Higher Education
