The cradle of categorization: Is the basic level basic?

By Jean M. Mandler, P. Bauer. 1988

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Does object naming aid 12-month-olds' formation of novel object categories? (2006, background): “…since it is unknown whether our categories are represented at the basicand global-levels for infants (for discussions regarding the appropriateness of the terms ‘basic-level’ and ‘global’ to refer to infants’ categorization, see Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991; Rakison, 2000).”
Evidence for Task-Dependent Categorization in Infancy (1996, methodology): “For example, Mandler and Bauer (1988) found that at 12 months, infants attended to the distinction between dogs and cars, but not until 20 months did infants attend to the distinction between kitchen and bathroom things and between animals and vehicles.”
Developmental origin of the animate-inanimate distinction. (2001, background): “It has been argued that the results of Mandler and her colleagues’ studies on early categorization (e.g., Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991) can be explained by infants’ attention to perceptual properties such as object parts, structural configuration, and overall shape (see e.g., Rakison…”
A Longitudinal Investigation of the Development of Attention and Distractibility (2006, background): “Indeed, other research in which infants are presented with multiple objects at one time suggests that infants this young have difficulty processing information in such contexts (e.g., Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler, Bauer, & McDonough, 1991; Oakes, Plumert, Lansink, & Merryman, 1996).”
Factors affecting children's graphic symbol use in the third year (2000, methodology): “Mandler et al. (Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991; Mandler & McDonough, 1993) has developed a model of early categorization that might be relevant to the choice task used here; a task that is, at its simplest level, a categorization of two stimuli Ð picture and object.”
Language and the career of similarity. (1991, methodology): “Mandler and Bauer (1988) used object manipulation and sequential touching as the dependent measure in a study with 12-, 15-, and 20-month-old subjects.”