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Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants?
Infants form object categories in the first months of life. By 3 months and throughout the first year, successful categorization varies as a function of the acoustic information presented in conjunction with category members. Here we ask whether tactile information, delivered in conjunction with cat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7762182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33291300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10120940 |
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author | Kadlaskar, Girija Waxman, Sandra Seidl, Amanda |
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description | Infants form object categories in the first months of life. By 3 months and throughout the first year, successful categorization varies as a function of the acoustic information presented in conjunction with category members. Here we ask whether tactile information, delivered in conjunction with category members, also promotes categorization. Six- to 9-month-olds participated in an object categorization task in either a touch-cue or no-cue condition. For infants in the touch-cue condition, familiarization images were accompanied by precisely-timed light touches from their caregivers; infants in the no-cue condition saw the same images but received no touches. Only infants in the touch-cue condition formed categories. This provides the first evidence that touch may play a role in supporting infants’ object categorization. |
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spelling | pubmed-77621822020-12-26 Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? Kadlaskar, Girija Waxman, Sandra Seidl, Amanda Brain Sci Article Infants form object categories in the first months of life. By 3 months and throughout the first year, successful categorization varies as a function of the acoustic information presented in conjunction with category members. Here we ask whether tactile information, delivered in conjunction with category members, also promotes categorization. Six- to 9-month-olds participated in an object categorization task in either a touch-cue or no-cue condition. For infants in the touch-cue condition, familiarization images were accompanied by precisely-timed light touches from their caregivers; infants in the no-cue condition saw the same images but received no touches. Only infants in the touch-cue condition formed categories. This provides the first evidence that touch may play a role in supporting infants’ object categorization. MDPI 2020-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7762182/ /pubmed/33291300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10120940 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kadlaskar, Girija Waxman, Sandra Seidl, Amanda Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title | Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title_full | Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title_fullStr | Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title_full_unstemmed | Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title_short | Does Human Touch Facilitate Object Categorization in 6-to-9-Month-Old Infants? |
title_sort | does human touch facilitate object categorization in 6-to-9-month-old infants? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7762182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33291300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10120940 |
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