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Why Not Just Features? Reconsidering Infants’ Behavior in Individuation Tasks

  • 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 ofIt 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.zeige mehrzeige weniger

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Verfasserangaben:Frauke HildebrandtORCiDGND, Jan LonnemannORCiDGND, Ramiro GlauerORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-24896
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564807
ISSN:1664-1078
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):Frontiers in Psychology
Verlag:Frontiers Media S.A.
Verlagsort:Lausanne
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung:21.10.2020
Veröffentlichende Institution:Fachhochschule Potsdam
Datum der Freischaltung:02.11.2020
Freies Schlagwort / Tag:feature-based learning; frame of reference; function-based learning; individuation failures; spatiotemporal individuation
GND-Schlagwort:Individuation; Individuationsprozess; Säugling
Jahrgang:11
Ausgabe / Heft:Okt.
Seitenzahl:9
Fachbereiche und Zentrale Einrichtungen:FB1 Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaften
DDC-Klassifikation:300 Sozialwissenschaften / 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International
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