Graham, SusanDiesendruck, Gil2020-04-222020-04-222010-01Graham, S. A., & Diesendruck, G. (2010). Fifteen-month-old infants attend to shape over other perceptual properties in an induction task. "Cognitive Development", 25 (2010). 111-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.06.0020885-2014http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111856https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/43690This study examined whether infants privilege shape over other perceptual properties when making inferences about the shared properties of novel objects. Forty-six 15-month-olds were presented with novel target objects that possessed a non-obvious property, followed by test objects that varied in shape, color, or texture relative to the target. Infants generalized the non-obvious property to test objects that were highly similar in shape, but not to objects that shared the same color or texture. These results demonstrate that infants’ attention to shape is not specific to lexical contexts and is present at the early stages of productive language development. The implications of these findings for debates about children’s shape bias, in particular, and the nature of infants’ categories more generally, are discussed.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.cogdev.2009.06.002