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Peer reviewedHayne, Harlene; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
The role of context in categorization was examined in four experiments with three month olds. Findings demonstrated that categorization of a novel object is influenced by the context present when the object is initially encountered and by previous encounters with that object in the category context, indicating that infants are capable of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Context Effect
