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Autor/inn/en | Ferry, Alissa L.; Hespos, Susan J.; Gentner, Dedre |
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Titel | Prelinguistic Relational Concepts: Investigating Analogical Processing in Infants |
Quelle | In: Child Development, 86 (2015) 5, S.1386-1405 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0009-3920 |
DOI | 10.1111/cdev.12381 |
Schlagwörter | Infants; Abstract Reasoning; Logical Thinking; Experiments; Replication (Evaluation) |
Abstract | This research asks whether analogical processing ability is present in human infants, using the simplest and most basic relation--the "same-different" relation. Experiment 1 (N = 26) tested whether 7- and 9-month-olds spontaneously detect and generalize these relations from a single example, as previous research has suggested. The attempted replication failed. Experiment 2 asked whether infants could abstract the relation via analogical processing (Experiment 2, N = 64). Indeed, with four exemplars, 7- and 9-month-olds could abstract the "same-different" relation and generalize it to novel pairs. Furthermore, prior experience with the objects disrupted learning. Facilitation from multiple exemplars and disruption by individual object salience are signatures of analogical learning. These results indicate that analogical ability is present by 7 months. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2020/1/01 |