TY - JOUR
T1 - Event categorization in infancy
AU - Baillargeon, Renée
AU - Wang, Su hua
N1 - Funding Information:
The preparation of this article was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD-21104) to the first author. We would like to thank Jerry DeJong, Cindy Fisher, and Kris Onishi for helpful comments and discussions, and the Assistant Editor of TICS for help in preparing the article for publication.
PY - 2002/2/1
Y1 - 2002/2/1
N2 - Recent research suggests that one of the mechanisms that contribute to infants' acquisition of their physical knowledge is the formation of event categories, such as occlusion and containment. Some of this research compared infants' identification of similar variables in different event categories. Marked developmental lags were found, suggesting that infants acquire event-specific rather than event-general expectations. Other research - on variable priming, perseveration, and object individuation - presented infants with successive events from the same or from different event categories. To understand the world as it unfolds, infants must not only represent each separate event, but also link successive events; this research begins to explore how infants respond to multiple events over time.
AB - Recent research suggests that one of the mechanisms that contribute to infants' acquisition of their physical knowledge is the formation of event categories, such as occlusion and containment. Some of this research compared infants' identification of similar variables in different event categories. Marked developmental lags were found, suggesting that infants acquire event-specific rather than event-general expectations. Other research - on variable priming, perseveration, and object individuation - presented infants with successive events from the same or from different event categories. To understand the world as it unfolds, infants must not only represent each separate event, but also link successive events; this research begins to explore how infants respond to multiple events over time.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01836-2
DO - 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01836-2
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15866192
AN - SCOPUS:0036468230
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 6
SP - 85
EP - 93
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 2
ER -