The developmental origins of object categories: how motion cues and labels bootstrap early categorization skills

将世界划分成有意义的类别是一项具有挑战性的任务，特别是考虑到在这个过程中可能会招募大量的信息(科恩，婴儿成功地将世界组织成了有意义的类别吗？近年来，在研究婴儿形成类别的条件以及他们在此过程中考虑的信息类型方面取得了巨大的进步(参见Pauen，Birgit，Hoehl，NG在言语前年龄的类别歧视，从而专注于婴儿在语言开始发挥作用之前是否发展了基于知识的类别表征(Poulin-Dubois，如基础水平？关于最后一个问题，标签被认为通过允许婴儿专注于共性来促进物体分类(Ferguson Lupyan，Rakison Waxman 2003)。然而，标签的确切功能以及双语儿童在形成类别时是否同样受益于语言，这一点并不清楚，因为他们的策略是将一个以上的单词映射到一个物体。将在当前研究方案范围内进行的一系列研究试图填补这些空白。

Partitioning the world into meaningful categories is a challenging task, especially considering the vast amount of information that could be recruited in the process (Cohen do infants successfully organize the world into meaningful categories? In recent years, tremendous strides have been made toward investigating the conditions under which infants form categories, as well as the types of information that they consider in doing so (see Pauen, Birgit, Hoehl, ng category discrimination at a preverbal age, thereby focusing on whether infants develop knowledge-based representations for categories before language comes into play (Poulin-Dubois such as the basic level? Regarding the last issue, labels are considered to boost object categorization by allowing infants to focus on commonalities (Ferguson Lupyan, Rakison Waxman 2003). However, the exact function of labelling is unclear as well as whether bilingual children benefit as much from language when forming categories given their strategy to map more than one word to an object. The series of studies to be conducted in the context of the current research program attempts to fill these gaps.**