The effect of labels on category formation in infancy
Lead Research Organisation:
Oxford Brookes University
Department Name: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Abstract
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Gert Westermann (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Westermann, G.
(2011)
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
Nadja Althaus (Author)
(2010)
Labels can cause infants to split a visual category into subclasses
Nadja Althaus (Author)
(2011)
Labeling modulates visual processing and favors selective attention to features
Nadja Althaus (Author)
(2011)
Labels can cause infants to split a visual category
Mareschal, D
(2012)
Multisensory Development
Johnson, Scott
(2010)
Neoconstructivism: The New Science of Cognitive Development
Gert Westermann (Speaker)
(2011)
How language shapes perception : bottom-up vs. top-down interactions
Althaus N
(2016)
Labels constructively shape object categories in 10-month-old infants.
in Journal of experimental child psychology
| Description | Young infants learn to group objects into categories and for example, consider a dog they have never seen before as similar to other dogs they know. Toward the end of their first year language comes into play, and an important question is whether the name given to objects can affect the categories that infants form. We discovered that 10-month-olds make use of labels when learning object categories: objects that are placed in a single category when no names are given to the objects are placed in two separate category when some of the objects are given one name and others are given a different name. |
| Exploitation Route | This was basic research on the interplay between cognitive and language development. Our results can form the basis for further research in this area. They can also be used to educate the public about the abilities of young infants. |
| Sectors | Education |
| Description | Categorization in infancy and the influence of labelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk presented at the University of East London, 18th November 2010 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | How language shapes perception |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 31st, 2011 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=568 |
| Description | Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A report and interview about the activities in the Oxford Brookes Babylab, broadcast on BBC South on October 30th, 2009 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio interview given on the BBC Radio Oxford Breakfast Show |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | The development of categorization and emotion processing in infancy : computational and empirical approaches |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 4 June 2010 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | The development of categorization in infancy - insights from connectionist modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at 'Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives.', Rovereto, Italy, 20 May 2010 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | The development of categorization in infancy - insights from connectionist modelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk presented at the University of Lincoln, 11 November 2009. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Using connectionist models in education research : a tutorial |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, London, 19 November 2009 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.educationalneuroscience.org.uk/ |