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Limits on Composition of Conceptual Operations in 9‐Month‐Olds
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Complex systems are often built from a relatively small set of basic features or operations that can be combined in myriad ways. We investigated the developmental origins of this compositional architecture in 9‐month‐old infants, extending recent work that demonstrated rudimentary compositional abilities in preschoolers. Infants viewed two separate object‐occlusion events that depicted a single‐feature‐change operation. They were then tested with a combined operation to determine whether they expected the outcome of the two feature changes, even though this combination was unfamiliar. In contrast to preschoolers, infants did not appear to predictively compose these simple feature‐change operations. A second experiment demonstrated the ability of infants to track two operations when not combined. The failure to compose basic operations is consistent with limitations on object tracking and early numerical cognition (Feigenson & Yamaguchi, Infancy, 2009, 14, 244). We suggest that these results can be unified via a general principle: Infants have difficulty with multiple updates to a representation of an unobservable.
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Children are not born with an adult-like ability to compose functions; there seem to be important changes between infancy and pre-school that could be tied to learning.
“First, children are not born with an adult-like ability to compose functions; in fact, there seem to be important changes between infancy58 and pre-school59 that could be tied to learning.”
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The Introduction and Conclusion report that 9-month-olds did not predictively compose simple feature-change functions, in contrast to preschoolers. The General discussion says the developmental change remains unexplained and suggests developing abilities as possible contributors. The paper does not test newborns or establish that learning causes the change. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Piantadosi, S. T., Palmeri, H., & Aslin, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester (US)
- Corresponding author
- Piantadosi, Steven T.
- Venue
- Infancy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-01-31
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 310-324
- ISSN
- 1525-0008 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7078
- PMC
- PMC7467157
- OpenAlex
- W2906632862
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Infancy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (F32HD070544)
- National Institutes of Health (HD‐037082)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- compositional reasoning, infant cognitive development, object tracking, numerical cognition, object occlusion, feature change
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