Traeuble, Birgit and Baetz, Johannes (2014). Shared function knowledge: Infants' attention to function information in communicative contexts. J. Exp. Child Psychol., 124. S. 67 - 78. NEW YORK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. ISSN 1096-0457

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Abstract

Humans are specifically adapted to knowledge acquisition and transfer by social communication. According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are highly sensitive to signals that indicate a teacher's communicative intention and are biased to interpret communicative contexts as conveying relevant and generalizable knowledge that is also shared by other conspecifics. We investigated whether infants as young as 12 months interpret ostensively communicated object-directed emotion expressions as generalizable and shareable with others. Given that young infants pay particular attention to information about objects' functions, we were interested in whether the shareability assumption also holds for emotional attitudes toward functional features of unfamiliar objects. The results suggest that 12-month-olds (N = 80) flexibly interpret another person's emotion displays toward unfamiliar artifacts either as object-centered and generalizable attitudes or as person-centered subjective attitudes, depending on the communicative characteristics of the learning context. Furthermore, the transfer of ostensively communicated information about the artifacts depended on their functional usability, which is consistent with infants' early sensitivity to function information in various areas of cognitive development. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Traeuble, BirgitUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Baetz, JohannesUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-433562
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.01.019
Journal or Publication Title: J. Exp. Child Psychol.
Volume: 124
Page Range: S. 67 - 78
Date: 2014
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1096-0457
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
PREVERBAL INFANTS; REPRESENTATION; CATEGORIZATION; PEDAGOGYMultiple languages
Psychology, Developmental; Psychology, ExperimentalMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43356

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