Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

Infants learn the forms of words by listening to the speech they hear. Though little is known
about the degree to which these forms are meaningful for young infants, the words still play …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

Abstract Comparison mechanisms have been implicated in the development of abstract,
relational thought, including object categorization. D. Gentner and LL Namy (1999) found …

Four experiments investigated whether 9-month-old infants could use the presence of labels
to help them establish a representation of two distinct objects in a complex object …

Long before we learn to talk, our expectations concerning novel members of a category are
shaped by our experience with already-encountered members. We expect, for example, that …

An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete,“basic” emotions
have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and …

Words from different grammatical categories (eg, nouns and adjectives) highlight different
aspects of the same objects (eg, object categories and object properties). Two experiments …

An extensive body of research claims that labels facilitate categorisation, highlight the
commonalities between objects and act as invitations to form categories for young infants …

Past research has uncovered a surprising paradox: Although 14‐month‐olds have exquisite
phonetic discrimination skills (eg, distinguishing [b] from [d]), they have difficulty using …