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TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's scale errors and object processing
T2 - Early evidence for cross-cultural differences
AU - Ishibashi, M.
AU - Twomey, K.E.
AU - Westermann, G.
AU - Uehara, I.
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Infant Behavior and Development. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Infant Behavior and Development, 65, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101631
PY - 2021/11/30
Y1 - 2021/11/30
N2 - Scale errors are observed when young children make mistakes by attempting to put their bodies into miniature versions of everyday objects. Such errors have been argued to arise from children's insufficient integration of size into their object representations. The current study investigated whether Japanese and UK children's (18–24 months old, N = 80) visual exploration in a categorization task related to their scale error production. UK children who showed greater local processing made more scale errors, whereas Japanese children, who overall showed greater global processing, showed no such relationship. These results raise the possibility that children's suppression of scale errors emerges not from attention to size per se, but from a critical integration of global (i.e., size) and local (i.e., object features) information during object processing, and provide evidence that this mechanism differs cross-culturally.
AB - Scale errors are observed when young children make mistakes by attempting to put their bodies into miniature versions of everyday objects. Such errors have been argued to arise from children's insufficient integration of size into their object representations. The current study investigated whether Japanese and UK children's (18–24 months old, N = 80) visual exploration in a categorization task related to their scale error production. UK children who showed greater local processing made more scale errors, whereas Japanese children, who overall showed greater global processing, showed no such relationship. These results raise the possibility that children's suppression of scale errors emerges not from attention to size per se, but from a critical integration of global (i.e., size) and local (i.e., object features) information during object processing, and provide evidence that this mechanism differs cross-culturally.
KW - Categorization
KW - Cognitive development
KW - Cultural differences
KW - Object processing
KW - Scale error
KW - article
KW - attention
KW - child
KW - cognitive development
KW - female
KW - human
KW - infant
KW - Japanese (people)
KW - major clinical study
KW - male
U2 - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101631
DO - 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101631
M3 - Journal article
VL - 65
JO - Infant Behavior and Development
JF - Infant Behavior and Development
SN - 0163-6383
M1 - 101631
ER -