Contributions of Attentional Style and Previous Experience to 4‐Month‐Old Infants’ Categorization

Kristine A. Kovack‐Lesh · Lisa M. Oakes · Bob McMurray

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Child and Animal Learning Development Language Development and Disorders Categorization, perception, and language

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We examined how infants' categorization is jointly influenced by previous experience and how much they shift their gaze back-and-forth between stimuli. Extending previous findings reported by Kovack-Lesh, Horst, and Oakes (2008), we found that 4-month-old infants' (N = 122) learning of the exclusive category of cats was related to whether they had cats at home and how much they shifted attention between two available stimuli during familiarization. Individual differences in attention assessed in an unrelated task were not related to their categorization. Thus, infants' learning is multiply influenced by past experience and on-line attentional style.

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