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Comparison in the Development of Categories
Dedre Gentner,Laura L. Namy +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined 4-year-olds' categorization behaviors when asked to select a match for a target object between a perceptually similar, out-of-kind object (e.g., a balloon) and an perceptually different category match, finding that children who learn a novel word as a label for multiple instances of the category are more likely to select the category match over the perceptual match.
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About: This article is published in Cognitive Development. The article was published on 01 Oct 1999. The article focuses on the topics: Categorization.
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