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Quinn, Paul C. – Child Development, 2004
Visual preference procedures were used to investigate development of perceptually based subordinate-level categorization in 3- to 7-month-old infants. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that 3- to 4-month-olds did not form category representations for photographic exemplars of subordinate-level classes of cats and dogs (i.e., Siamese vs. Tabby,…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Age Differences, Concept Formation
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Sutcliffe, P.; Bishop, D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
We investigated how different psychophysical procedures affect frequency discrimination performance in children. Four studies used a design in which listeners heard two tone pairs and had to identify whether the first or second pair contained a higher frequency target tone. Thresholds for 6-and 7-year-olds were higher than those for 8- and…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Age Differences, Young Children