APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
The Roles of Function and Appearance in Shaping Word Learning
- Julia Iannucci
Skidmore College - Jessica Sullivan
Skidmore College
Abstract
What information do preschoolers use to categorize the world? Building on previous work (e.g., Diesendruck & Peretz, 2013), we show that preschoolers (N = 40; Mage = 45m.) use appearance, function, and information about an object's animacy during both categorization and word learning.
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