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COGNITION
Volume 105, Issue 3, Pages 669-680Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.11.004
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infants; learning; rules; statistics
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- NICHD NIH HHS [P30 HD003352, R01 HD037466, P30HD03352, R01 HD037466-05A1, R01HD37466] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH061285, R01MH61285] Funding Source: Medline
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Human infants possess powerful learning mechanisms used for the acquisition of language. To what extent are these mechanisms domain specific? One well-known infant language learning mechanism is the ability to detect and generalize rule-like similarity patterns, such as ABA or ABB [Marcus, G. F., Vijayan, S., Rao, S. B., & Vishton, P. M. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants. Science, 283, 77-80.]. The results of three experiments demonstrate that 7-month-old infants can detect and generalize these same patterns when the elements consist of pictures of animals (dogs and cats). These findings indicate that rule learning of this type is not specific to language acquisition. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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