TY - JOUR
T1 - Infant individuation and identification of objects
AU - Tremoulet, Patrice D.
AU - Leslie, Alan M.
AU - Hall, D. Geoffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Susan Carey, Fei Xu, Renee Baillargeon, Zenon Pylyshyn, Brian Scholl, Jerry Fodor, Bela Julesz, Elizabeth Spelke, and Ann Treisman for helpful discussions and to Jacob Feldman, Greg Rouen, Zsuzsa Kaldy, Patrick Cavanagh, and Eileen Kowler for discussion and comments on earlier drafts, and to two anonymous reviewers. This research was supported by NSF grant nos. SBR-9616342 and BCS-0079917 awarded to A.M.L.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Recent studies of the infant's object concept have focused on the role of property information in individuation. We draw a distinction between individuation and identification. By individuation, we mean the setting up of an object representation (OR). By identification, we mean using the information stored in an OR to decide which, if any, previously individuated object is presently encountered. We investigate this distinction in experiments with 12-month-old infants. We find that for infants of this age, a shape difference between two objects has a large effect on both individuation and identification. However, a color difference between two objects has a large effect on individuation, but little or no effect on identification. This suggests that, somewhat surprisingly, information used to establish an OR may not always be incorporated into that representation.
AB - Recent studies of the infant's object concept have focused on the role of property information in individuation. We draw a distinction between individuation and identification. By individuation, we mean the setting up of an object representation (OR). By identification, we mean using the information stored in an OR to decide which, if any, previously individuated object is presently encountered. We investigate this distinction in experiments with 12-month-old infants. We find that for infants of this age, a shape difference between two objects has a large effect on both individuation and identification. However, a color difference between two objects has a large effect on individuation, but little or no effect on identification. This suggests that, somewhat surprisingly, information used to establish an OR may not always be incorporated into that representation.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0885-2014(01)00038-7
DO - 10.1016/S0885-2014(01)00038-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000141431
SN - 0885-2014
VL - 15
SP - 499
EP - 522
JO - Cognitive Development
JF - Cognitive Development
IS - 4
ER -