title: Development of an abstract category representation for the spatial relation between in 6- to 10-month-old infants.
abstract: Nine experiments examined the formation of an abstract category representation for the spatial relation between by 6- to 10-month-old infants. The experiments determined that 9- to 10-month-olds, but not 6- to 7-month-olds, could form an abstract category representation for between when performing in an object-variation version of the between categorization task. The results also demonstrated that 6- to 7-month-olds could form category representations for between in the object-variation version of the between categorization task but that such representations were specific to the particular objects presented. The evidence confirms that representations for different spatial relations emerge at different points during development, and suggests that each representation undergoes its own period of development from concrete to abstract.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 15301, USA. pquinn@washjeff.edu
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Adria
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shettler
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wasnik
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011897:Random Allocation; D013028:Space Perception