14- to 16-Month-Olds Attend to Distinct Labels in an Inductive Reasoning Task

We examined how naming objects with unique labels influenced infants’ reasoning about the non-obvious properties of novel objects. Seventy 14- to 16-month-olds participated in an imitation-based inductive inference task during which they were presented with target objects possessing a non-obvious so...

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Main Authors: Susan A. Graham, Jessica L. Switzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00609/full