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Kovack-Lesh, Kristine A.; Oakes, Lisa M.; McMurray, Bob – Infancy, 2012
We examined how infants' categorization is jointly influenced by previous experience and how much they shift their gaze back and forth between stimuli. Extending previous findings reported by K. A. Kovack-Lesh, J. S. Horst, and L. M. Oakes (2008), we found that 4-month-old infants' (N = 122) learning of the exclusive category of "cats" was related…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Infants, Attention
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Samuelson, Larissa K.; Horst, Jessica S. – Infancy, 2007
Recent research on early word learning suggests that children's behavior when-generalizing novel nouns integrates their prior vocabulary knowledge with the specifics of the task. This study examines how these factors interact on the moment-to-moment time scale of the training children receive and the sequence of stimuli they are shown. In 1…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Nouns, Prior Learning, Vocabulary Development