Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bergelson E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3633664 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cognition 20130328 3
Young infants' learning of words for abstract concepts like 'all gone' and 'eat,' in contrast to their learning of more concrete words like 'apple' and 'shoe,' may follow a relatively protracted developmental course. We examined whether infants know such abstract words. Parents named one of two events shown in side-by-side videos while their 6-16-month-old infants (n=98) watched. On average, infants successfully looked at the named video by 10 months, but not earlier, and infants' looking at the ...[more]