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标题：Why Not Just Features? Reconsidering Infants’ Behavior in Individuation Tasks
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作者：Frauke Hildebrandt ; Jan Lonnemann ; Ramiro Glauer 等
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2020
卷号：11
页码：564807-564815
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2020.564807
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：It counts as empirically proven that infants can individuate objects. Object individuation is assumed to be fundamental in the development of infants' ontology within the object-first account. It crucially relies on an object-file (OF) system, representing both spatiotemporal ("where") and categorical ("what") information about objects as solid, cohesive bodies moving continuously in space and time. However, infants' performance in tasks requiring them to use featural information to detect individuation violations appears to be at odds with the object-first account. In such cases, infants do not appear to be able to develop correct expectations about the numerosity of objects. Recently, proponents of the object-first account proposed that these individuation failures result from integration errors between the OF system and an additional physical reasoning system. We are going to argue that the predictions of a feature-based physical-reasoning (PR) system are sufficient for explaining infants' behavior. The striking predictive power of the PR system calls into question the relevance of the OF system and, thereby, challenges the assumption that infants can individuate objects early on. Copyright © 2020 Hildebrandt, Lonnemann and Glauer.
关键词：feature-based learning;frame of reference;individuation failures;object index;object individuation;spatiotemporal individuation