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Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions

Two-year-olds typically extend labels of novel objects by the objects’ shape (shape bias), whereas adults do so by the objects’ function. Is this because shape is conceptually easier to comprehend than function? To test whether the conceptual complexity of function prevents infants from developing a...

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Autores principales: Zuniga-Montanez, Cecilia, Kita, Sotaro, Aussems, Suzanne, Krott, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8641134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34111370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797621993107