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The role of bodies in infants’ categorical representations of humans and non-human animals
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- Axelsson, Emma L. (author)
- Research School of Psychology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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- Moore, Derek G. (author)
- Faculty of Health and Education, University of Greenwich, London, UK.; School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
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- Murphy, Elizabeth M. (author)
- School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
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- Goodwin, Julia E. (author)
- School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
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- Clifford, Brian R. (author)
- School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK.
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Research School of Psychology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Faculty of Health and Education, University of Greenwich, London, UK.; School of Psychology, University of East London, London, UK. (creator_code:org_t)
- 2018-10-22
- 2018
- English.
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In: Infant and Child Development. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1522-7227 .- 1522-7219. ; 27:6
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Abstract
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- To investigate whether bodies are useful cues in infants' category formations, 7-month-old infants were familiarized to images of humans or non-human animals followed by test pairs comprising a familiar category image and a hybrid image with a novel category body. Infants familiarized to humans did not demonstrate a novelty preference for hybrid stimuli with non-human animal bodies. Infants familiarized with non-human animals demonstrated a novelty preference for hybrid stimuli with human bodies, suggesting that there is an asymmetry in infants' category formations of bodies. Compared with infants familiarized to non-human animals, the infants familiarized to humans had a higher proportional fixation count to bodies during familiarization, but the lack of preference for novel category bodies at test suggests that 7-month-old infants' representations of the features of human bodies are likely still developing and they are more likely to form a summary-based categorical representation of non-human animals.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology -- Psychology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- body representations
- categorization
- eye tracking
- familiarity
- infants
- social stimuli
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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