Evidence for Representations of Perceptually Similar Natural Categories by 3-Month-Old and 4-Month-Old Infants

By Paul C. Quinn, P. Eimas, Stacey L Rosenkrantz. 1993

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Grounded Language Learning in a Simulated 3D World (2017, background): “Another key requirement for linguistic generalisation is the ability to extend category terms beyond the speciﬁc exemplars from which those concepts were learned (Quinn et al., 1993; Rogers and McClelland, 2004).”
Infant Categorization of Faces: Ladies First. (2005, unknown): “The greater the perceptual similarity or prototypicality among category exemplars, the easier it is for infants to form a category because it is easier to form and diVerentiate between categories when the within-category similarity is maximized and the between-category similarity is minimized (e.g.,”
Hold your horses: how exposure to different items influences infant categorization. (2007, background): “For example, researchers have asked under what conditions do infants respond to the exclusive category of dogs or cats, as opposed to a more inclusive category that includes both dogs and cats (e.g., Oakes & Ribar, 2005; Quinn et al., 1993).”
Does object naming aid 12-month-olds' formation of novel object categories? (2006, background): “…studies have shown that infants are skilled in forming basic-level categories at a very early age and are able to form basic-level categories more easily than global categories (Eimas et al., 1994; Fulkerson & Haaf, 2003; Quinn & Eimas, 1996; Quinn et al., 1993; Ross, 1980; Waxman & Markow, 1995).”
Looks Aren't Everything: 24-Month-Olds' Willingness to Accept Unexpected Labels (2007, background): “For example, Quinn, Eimas, and Rosenkrantz (1993) showed that very young infants can form categories by detecting perceptual similarities between objects.”
Experience-Based and On-Line Categorization of Objects in Early Infancy (2010, unknown): “Bornstein, Kessen, & Weiskopf, 1976; Quinn, Eimas, & Rosenkrantz, 1993 ).”
Automatic Caption Generation for News Images (2013, background): “For example, infants, from an early age, are able to form perceptually-based category representations (Quinn et al., 1993).”
Reversing Category Exclusivities in Infant Perceptual Categorization: Simulations and Data (2001, methodology): “As in Quinn et al. (1993) and Mareschal et al. (2000), the pictures selected were chosen to represent a variety of shapes, colors, and orientations of each type of animal.”
Recognition of individual faces and average face prototypes by 1- and 3-month-old infants (2001, result): “…consistent with previous results showing that by 3 months of age infants can form categories of complex, natural stimuli (e.g., Eimas & Quinn, 1994; Quinn et al., 1993) and with previous reports showing that 6-month-olds and older infants can form average prototypic representations of faces…”