title: The role of object recognition in young infants' object segregation.
abstract: Needham's (2001, this issue) new results confirm that young infants draw on experientially derived representations in resolving individuation ambiguities due to shared boundaries between adjacent objects. They extend previous findings in a surprising way: The memory representations that infants draw upon have bound together information about shape, color, and pattern. Our commentary on these important results draws a distinction between two senses of "recognition" and asks in which sense object recognition contributes to object individuation in these experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, NY 10003, USA. sc50@is6.nyu.edu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011582:Psychological Theory