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@article{citeulike:6095771, abstract = {This paper reports the results of two sets of studies demonstrating 14-month-olds' tendency to associate an object's behavior with internal, rather than external features. In Experiment 1 infants were familiarized to two animated cats that each exhibited a different style of self-generated motion. Infants then saw a novel individual that had an internal feature (stomach color) similar to one cat, but an external feature (hat color) similar to the other. Infants looked reliably longer when the individual's motion was congruent with the hat than when it was congruent with the stomach. Using a converging method involving object choice, Experiment 2 found that infants prioritized the internal feature over the external feature only when the object's behavior was self-generated. In the absence of self-generated behaviors, however, infants did not show a preference towards the internal feature.}, author = {Newman, George E. and Herrmann, Patricia and Wynn, Karen and Keil, Frank C.}, citeulike-article-id = {6095771}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.006}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18068151}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18068151}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.006}, issn = {0010-0277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {categorization, causality, conceptual\_knowledge, cp\_prosem, development, featural\_processing, infants}, month = {May}, number = {2}, pages = {420--432}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 20:19:21}, priority = {0}, title = {Biases towards internal features in infants' reasoning about objects.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.006}, volume = {107}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6095771 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6095771 N2 - This paper reports the results of two sets of studies demonstrating 14-month-olds' tendency to associate an object's behavior with internal, rather than external features. In Experiment 1 infants were familiarized to two animated cats that each exhibited a different style of self-generated motion. Infants then saw a novel individual that had an internal feature (stomach color) similar to one cat, but an external feature (hat color) similar to the other. Infants looked reliably longer when the individual's motion was congruent with the hat than when it was congruent with the stomach. Using a converging method involving object choice, Experiment 2 found that infants prioritized the internal feature over the external feature only when the object's behavior was self-generated. In the absence of self-generated behaviors, however, infants did not show a preference towards the internal feature. IS - 2 JF - Cognition SN - 0010-0277 EP - 432 TI - Biases towards internal features in infants' reasoning about objects. VL - 107 SP - 420 KW - categorization KW - causality KW - conceptual_knowledge KW - cp_prosem KW - development KW - featural_processing KW - infants AU - Newman, George AU - Herrmann, Patricia AU - Wynn, Karen AU - Keil, Frank PY - 2008/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.006 ER -