Demonstration of the shape bias without label extension.
Existing shape bias research has determined that children generally extend object labels to novel instances on the basis of shape, and this typically occurs by around age 2.5. This research was conducted to further examine the nature of this bias during the second year of life, and determined that by using a more sensitive measure (novelty preference looking time) an emerging shape bias can be found as early as 14 months of age. In addition, demonstration of the shape bias in the current experiment appears to be unrelated to the 50 count noun marker.
Hupp
Julie M
JM
Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University-Newark, 1179 University Drive, Newark, OH 43055, United States. hupp.34@osu.edu
D000367:Age Factors; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology