Keates, JeanyGraham, SusanGanea, Patricia A.2020-04-282020-04-282014-05Keates, J., Graham, S. A., & Ganea, P. A. (2014). Infants transfer nonobvious properties from pictures to real-world objects. "Journal of Child Psychology". 125, (2014), 35-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.02.0030022-0965http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111916https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/43686The current research examined infants' ability to generalize information about the nonobvious properties of objects depicted in picture books to their real-world referents. Infants aged 13, 15, and 18 months (N=135) were shown a series of pictures depicting an adult acting on a novel object to elicit a nonobvious property of that object. Infants were subsequently tested on their extension of the nonobvious property to the real-world object depicted in the book and their generalization of this property to a different color exemplar of the depicted object. Results indicated that, regardless of age, infants expected the real-world objects to have the non-obvious property, as indicated by their attempts to elicit this property with these objects. These findings indicate that early in their second year of life, infants are beginning to make inductive inferences about nonobvious object properties based on information provided in pictures.engUnless otherwise indicated, this material is protected by copyright and has been made available with authorization from the copyright owner. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.journal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.02.003