Object recognition and object segregation in infancy: Historical perspective, theoretical significance, "kinds" of knowledge, and relation to object categorization
Pc. Quinn et Rs. Bhatt, Object recognition and object segregation in infancy: Historical perspective, theoretical significance, "kinds" of knowledge, and relation to object categorization, J EXP C PSY, 78(1), 2001, pp. 25-34
Needham (2001, this issue) reports that 4.5-month-old infants can use a sho
rt-term familiarization experience with a single object to facilitate the s
egregation of a visual dis play consisting of a configurally similar object
;Ind a configurally dissimilar adjacent object. We reflect on this finding
in the larger context of Needham's systematic research on the development o
f object perception, a program that has included (1) a series of empirical
studies designed to identify the different cues that infants use for object
segregation and (2) a theoretical framework in which infants are presumed
to integrate these cues to form interpretations of complex visual displays.
(C) 2001 Academic Press.