The nature of infants' early shape bias : the role of kind concepts, object domain, and learning

The studies in this thesis address two central issues that remain unresolved in the developmental literature. The first issue concerns the question of whether infants’ earliest object labels refer to distinct shapes or distinct kinds (Study One and Two). The second issue concerns the question of the...

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Main Author: Dewar, Kathryn Megan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20751