The Development of Global-Level Categorization

Autor(en)
Stefanie Peykarjou, Stefanie Hoehl, Sabina Pauen
Abstrakt

Adults and infants form abstract categories of visual objects, but little is known about the development of global categorization. This study aims to characterize the development of very fast global categorization (living and non-living objects) and to determine whether and how low-level stimulus characteristics contribute to this response. Frequency tagging was used to characterize the development of global-level categorization in

N = 69 infants (4, 7, 11 months),

N = 22 children (5-6 years old), and

N = 20 young adults. Images were presented in an oddball paradigm, with a category change at every fifth position (AAAABAAAABA…). Strong and significant high-level categorization was observed in all age groups, with reduced responses for phase-scrambled control sequences (R

2 = 0.34-0.73). No differences between the categorization of living and non-living targets were observed. These data demonstrate high-level visual categorization as living and non-living from four months to adulthood, providing converging evidence that humans are highly sensitive to broad categorical information from infancy onward.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Heidelberg, Charlotte Fresenius Universität
Journal
Brain Sciences
Band
14
ISSN
2076-3425
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14060541
Publikationsdatum
06-2024
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Neurowissenschaft
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c300e231-60e4-46d6-ae3f-980d6988f85a