title: Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events.
abstract: Do 14- to 17-month-olds notice the paths and manners of motion events? English- and Spanish-learning infants were habituated to an animated motion event including a manner (e.g., spinning) and a path (e.g., over). They were then tested on four types of events that changed either the manner, the path, both, or neither component. Both English- and Spanish-learning infants attended to changes of manner and changes of path. Thus, infants from two different language communities proved sensitive to components of events that undergird relational term learning.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. rpulverm@umich.edu
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pulverman
authors.forename: Roberta Michnick
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Golinkoff
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirsh-Pasek
authors.forename: Jennifer Sootsman
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Buresh
mesh_terms: D001076:Aptitude; D001288:Attention; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D009039:Motion Perception; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012660:Semantics; D014481:United States