Toddlers’ referential understanding of pictures

Study

Name

Description

Toddlers were taught the name of a novel object in pictures and then tested on whether they could (1) recognize the object in real life and (2) recognize a photograph of the same object in a different color.

Types

Authors

Melissa Allen Preissler

Patricia A. Ganea

Claims from

Many infants at 15 to 24 months of age can recognize a real-world object that they learned about in pictures, as long as the real-world object is the same color as the picture object.

Journal

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Topics

Developmental Psychology

Web URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865246/

Referenced by

Many infants at 15 to 24 months of age can recognize a real-world object that they learned about in pictures, as long as the real-world object is the same color as the picture object.

Psychology