Research and policy
How infants recognise objects
3 Jun 2010
This study, conducted in America, examined 46 infants between the ages of three and four months old and the influence which words and tone had on object categorisation. The infants were introduced to different examples of a category along with either a labelling phrase or a tone sequence. Those infants who heard the labelling phrase in conjunction with the exampled showed evidence of categorisation while infants who heard the tone sequence did not. These test results suggest that infants as young as three months old treat words and tones differently. The full paper and study results can be found in the March/April issue of Child and Development.
