TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Glauer, Ramiro T1 - Why Not Just Features? Reconsidering Infants’ Behavior in Individuation Tasks JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - It counts as empirically proven that infants can individuate objects. Object individuation is assumed to be fundamental in the development of infants’ ontology within the object-first account. It crucially relies on an object-file (OF) system, representing both spatiotemporal (“where”) and categorical (“what”) information about objects as solid, cohesive bodies moving continuously in space and time. However, infants’ performance in tasks requiring them to use featural information to detect individuation violations appears to be at odds with the object-first account. In such cases, infants do not appear to be able to develop correct expectations about the numerosity of objects. Recently, proponents of the object-first account proposed that these individuation failures result from integration errors between the OF system and an additional physical reasoning system. We are going to argue that the predictions of a feature-based physical-reasoning (PR) system are sufficient for explaining infants’ behavior. The striking predictive power of the PR system calls into question the relevance of the OF system and, thereby, challenges the assumption that infants can individuate objects early on. KW - Individuation KW - function-based learning KW - spatiotemporal individuation KW - individuation failures KW - feature-based learning KW - frame of reference KW - Individuationsprozess KW - Säugling Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-24896 SN - 1664-1078 VL - 11 IS - Okt. PB - Frontiers Media S.A. CY - Lausanne ER -