17 Feb
2022
17 Feb
'22
8:11 a.m.
*Time*: 4pm (to 5:30pm) Budapest/Vienna time
*Date*: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
*Venue*: Online, Zoom meeting 942 7892 8352
<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94278928352?pwd=ckljaElMYnJtYW41b25sVGZNU09kQT09>,
pw: xfhq44
*Chair:* Ágnes Kovács
*Speaker*: Nadja Althaus <http://www.nadjaalthaus.org/> (School of
Psychology, University of East Anglia)
*Title*: *Words as cues to categorisation in infancy*
*Abstract*: There has been robust evidence that labelling affects infant
categorisation, but mechanisms and processes underlying this interaction
between word learning and categorising objects remain obscure.
Previous work has presented advantages for categorisation in the presence
of labels, even for very young infants between 3 and 4 months, but research
has not so far explained conclusively why exactly labelling helps. In
particular, studies have typically contrasted successful learning of a
single category with labels with unsuccessful learning in anon-labelling
context. This makes it difficult to pinpoint the locus of the benefit
exactly, as it is not clear what fails when learning is unsuccessful. I
will present a series of eye tracking studies that aim to shed light on
this through a combination of carefully tracking infants’ attention
directed at individual features, and using labels contrastively (i.e. for
two different categories) so that differences in what is being learned can
be measured. Together, these experiments provide novel insights into the
relationship between language and concepts in early childhood.
*Please let me know if you would like to schedule an online meeting with
Nadja. *
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