Object individuation in infancy: the use of featural information in reasoning about occlusion events
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A study was conducted to analyze infants' performances in event monitoring undertakings and in event-mapping activities characterized by occlusion and a no-occlusion events. The study also examined infants' capability to utilize featural data to individuate objects in different-objects occlusion scenarios. Results indicated that infants readily attained goals at event-monitoring activities and only succeeded at event-mapping tasks during the paring down of events.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 1998
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Red bluebirds and black greenflies: preschoolers' understanding of the semantics of adjectives and count nouns
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Research shows that adults and four-year-old children consider the lexical category of a word as a major cue to its meaning, whether cued phonologically or syntactically. Studies show that children aged less than four are unable to do this. Adults' and young children's perceptions of the semantic functions of count nouns and adjectives were analysed in experiments requiring count nouns and adjectives to be applied to a target object.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1997
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Seeing pink elephants: fourteen-month-olds' interpretations of novel nouns and adjectives
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Research with infants 14 months old shows the ability to link count nouns to object categories is an early aspect of language acquisition and assists in creating other world-to-world cognitive maps. These infants could distinguish count nouns from adjectives and expect different grammatical forms indicate different aspects of words.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2001
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