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@article{citeulike:507836, abstract = {This article examines the development of inductive generalization, and presents a model of young children's induction and two experiments testing the model. The model specifies contribution of linguistic labels and perceptual similarity to young children's induction and predicts a correspondence between similarity judgment and induction of young children. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds, 7- to 8-year-olds, and 11- to 12-year-olds were presented with triads of schematic faces (a Target and two Test stimuli), which varied in perceptual similarity, with one of the Test stimuli sharing a linguistic label with the Target, and another having a different label. Participants were taught an unobservable biological property about the Target and asked to generalize the property to one of the Test stimuli. Although 4- to 5-year-olds' proportions of label-based inductive generalizations varied with the degree of perceptual similarity among the compared stimuli, 11- to 12-year-olds relied exclusively on labels, and 7- to 8-year-olds appeared to be a transitional group. In Experiment 2 these findings were replicated using naturalistic stimuli (i.e., photographs of animals), with perceptual similarity manipulated by "morphing" naturalistic pictures into each other in a fixed number of steps. Overall results support predictions of the model and point to a developmental shift from treating linguistic labels as an attribute contributing to similarity to treating them as markers of a common category-a shift that appears to occur between 8 and 11 years of age.}, address = {Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1336, USA. sloutsky.1@osu.edu}, author = {Sloutsky, V. M. and Lo, Y. F. and Fisher, A. V.}, citeulike-article-id = {507836}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11768140}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11768140}, issn = {0009-3920}, journal = {Child Dev}, keywords = {child, inference, language, semiotics, similarity, symbol\_system, word}, number = {6}, pages = {1695--1709}, posted-at = {2009-05-03 07:33:08}, priority = {2}, title = {How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11768140}, volume = {72}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:507836 L3 - citeulike-article-id:507836 N2 - This article examines the development of inductive generalization, and presents a model of young children's induction and two experiments testing the model. The model specifies contribution of linguistic labels and perceptual similarity to young children's induction and predicts a correspondence between similarity judgment and induction of young children. In Experiment 1, 4- to 5-year-olds, 7- to 8-year-olds, and 11- to 12-year-olds were presented with triads of schematic faces (a Target and two Test stimuli), which varied in perceptual similarity, with one of the Test stimuli sharing a linguistic label with the Target, and another having a different label. Participants were taught an unobservable biological property about the Target and asked to generalize the property to one of the Test stimuli. Although 4- to 5-year-olds' proportions of label-based inductive generalizations varied with the degree of perceptual similarity among the compared stimuli, 11- to 12-year-olds relied exclusively on labels, and 7- to 8-year-olds appeared to be a transitional group. In Experiment 2 these findings were replicated using naturalistic stimuli (i.e., photographs of animals), with perceptual similarity manipulated by "morphing" naturalistic pictures into each other in a fixed number of steps. Overall results support predictions of the model and point to a developmental shift from treating linguistic labels as an attribute contributing to similarity to treating them as markers of a common category-a shift that appears to occur between 8 and 11 years of age. IS - 6 JF - Child Dev SN - 0009-3920 AD - Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210-1336, USA. sloutsky.1@osu.edu EP - 1709 TI - How much does a shared name make things similar? Linguistic labels, similarity, and the development of inductive inference. VL - 72 SP - 1695 KW - child KW - inference KW - language KW - semiotics KW - similarity KW - symbol_system KW - word AU - Sloutsky, VM AU - Lo, YF AU - Fisher, AV PY - 2001///c UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11768140 ER -