Young children’s self-generated object views and object recognition
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Two important and related developments in children between 18 and 24 months of age are the rapid expansion of object name vocabularies and the emergence of an ability to recognize objects from sparse representations of their geometric shapes. In the same period, children also begin to show a preference for planar views (i.e., views of objects held perpendicular to the line of sight) of objects they manually explore. Are children's emerging view preferences somehow related to contemporary changes in object name vocabulary and object perception? Children aged 18 to 24 months old explored richly detailed toy objects while wearing a head camera that recorded their object views. Both children's vocabulary size and their success in recognizing sparse three-dimensional representations of the geometric shapes of objects were significantly related to their spontaneous choice of planar views of those objects during exploration. The results suggest important interdependencies among developmental changes in perception, action, word learning, and categorization in very young children.
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Humans learn by actively engaging and interacting with the world.
“In contrast, humans learn by actively engaging and interacting with the world (James et al., 2014).”
From Object-Centric Scene Representations Using Active Inference (2024) · cites this paper as James et al., 2014
The opening section describes children’s manual exploration of objects as a possible step in learning to recognize them. The paper studies 18- to 24-month-olds and reports associations, so it does not establish the broader claim that humans generally learn through active engagement with the world. (LLM, conf=0.82)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredCCNs consist of a separate encoder-decoder model trained per object category, inspired by cortical columns, and reflect how toddlers interact with one object at a time.
“These consist of a separate encoder-decoder model trained separately per object category, which is inspired by cortical columns in the brain (Hawkins et al., 2017), and reflect how toddlers typically interact with one object at a time (James et al., 2014).”
From Object-Centric Scene Representations Using Active Inference (2024) · cites this paper as James et al., 2014
In Method > Tasks and Measures (page unavailable), the paper describes giving children one object at a time to explore, retrieving each before handing over the next. This supports the one-object-at-a-time aspect of the citation, but it describes an experimental procedure rather than establishing that toddlers typically interact that way outside the task. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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Background
- Authors
- James, K. H., Jones, S. S., Smith, L. B., & Swain, S. N.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University (US)
- Corresponding author
- James, Karin H.
- Venue
- Journal of Cognition and Development
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 393-401
- ISSN
- 1524-8372 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7647
- PMC
- PMC4215547
- OpenAlex
- W2002549473
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 23
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- FWCI
- 8.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Cognition and Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- This research was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Development, HD 28675 and HD 057077.
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- object recognition, object views, head-mounted camera, word learning, manual exploration, infant development, categorization
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