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T1 - A learned label modulates object representations in 10-month-old infants
AU - Twomey, Katherine Elizabeth
AU - Westermann, Gert
PY - 2016/8/3
Y1 - 2016/8/3
N2 - Despite substantial evidence for a bidirectional relationship between language and representation, the roots of this relationship in infancy are not known. The current study explores the possibility that labels may affect object representations at the earliest stages of language acquisition. We asked parents to play with their 10-month-old infants with two novel toys for three minutes, every day for a week, teaching infants a novel word for one toy but not the other. After a week infants participated in a familiarization task in which they saw each object for 8 trials in silence, followed by a test trial consisting of both objects accompanied by the trained word. Infants exhibited a faster decline in looking times to the previously unlabeled object. These data speak to the current debate over the status of labels in human cognition, supporting accounts in which labels are an integral part of representation.
AB - Despite substantial evidence for a bidirectional relationship between language and representation, the roots of this relationship in infancy are not known. The current study explores the possibility that labels may affect object representations at the earliest stages of language acquisition. We asked parents to play with their 10-month-old infants with two novel toys for three minutes, every day for a week, teaching infants a novel word for one toy but not the other. After a week infants participated in a familiarization task in which they saw each object for 8 trials in silence, followed by a test trial consisting of both objects accompanied by the trained word. Infants exhibited a faster decline in looking times to the previously unlabeled object. These data speak to the current debate over the status of labels in human cognition, supporting accounts in which labels are an integral part of representation.
U2 - 10.13140/RG.2.2.10106.49609
DO - 10.13140/RG.2.2.10106.49609
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SP - 680
EP - 685
BT - Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
A2 - Papafragou, Anna
A2 - Grodner, Daniel
A2 - Mirman, Daniel
A2 - Trueswell, John C.
PB - Cognitive Science Society
CY - Austin, TX
ER -