The effects of perceptual similarity and category membership on early word-referent identification.

We investigated the impact of perceptual and categorical relatedness between a target and a distracter object on early referent identification in infants and adults. In an intermodal preferential looking (IPL) task, participants looked at a target object paired with a distracter object that could be...

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Main Authors: Arias-Trejo, N, Plunkett, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010