Infants’ Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity

Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan

doi:10.1006/cogp.1996.0005

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“…We can interpret this as a sign that the infant conjectured that there is only one object behind the occluder and was surprised to discover that there are two (see, e.g., Wilcox & Baillargeon, 1998). Xu and Carey (1996), however, argued that the infant could be surprised without ever concluding that there are two objects. Indeed, the infant may think that there is only one object and be surprised that its properties have changed.…”

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“…To our knowledge, the first study that directly investigated this question during early infancy was Xu and Carey (1996). The authors devised a paradigm, which we describe below, to specifically test whether infants can identify objects by using the property method.…”

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“…To account for their findings, Xu and Carey (1996) proposed what they called the Object First Hypothesis (OFH). According to the OFH, young infants represent objects as physically bounded, spatially separated entities persistent over time regardless of their differences in properties.…”

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The Human First Hypothesis: Identification of Conspecifics and Individuation of Objects in the Young Infant

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“…Initially, researchers focused on the importance of spatiotemporal information to the individuation process (Spelke et al, 1995;Xu & Carey, 1996). Xu and Carey (1996) claimed that infants younger than about 12 months use only spatiotemporal information to individuate objects and argued that it is not until the onset of language that infants have the conceptual structure required to individuate objects using property or kind information.…”

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Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy.

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Developmental Psychology

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Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select experiences. Five experiments were conducted with 10.5-and 9.5-month-olds. The results revealed that multimodal (visual and tactile), but not unimodal (visual only), exploration of the objects prior to the individuation task increased 10.5-month-olds' sensitivity to color differences. These results suggest that multisensory experience with objects facilitates infants' use of color information when individuating objects. In contrast, 9.5-month-olds did not benefit from the multisensory procedure; possible explanations for this finding are explored. Together, these results reveal how an everyday experience-combined visual and tactile exploration of objects-can promote infants' use of color information as the basis for individuating objects. More broadly, these results shed light on the nature of infants' object representations and the cognitive mechanisms that support infants' changing sensitivity to color differences.

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“…A related question concerns object individuation: what kind of information do we use for decision about individuation and numerical identity of objects? Xu and Carey (1996) show that infants, although sensitive to object properties, do not use kind differences as a basis for object individuation. Imagine the following scenario.…”

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Object temporal connotation

Becchio

Bertone

2003

Brain and Cognition

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Recent studies show that what connotes an object is first of all a certain spatio-temporal structure. In this paper we describe some of the temporal features characterizing the temporal structure of objects: pre-existence, persistence, conservation of identity in spite of perceptive discontinuity, surviving changes in colour, size, and shape. We argue that time is an indispensable attribute for every type of object and briefly discuss the implication of this view with respect to a specific neuropsychological syndrome: unilateral spatial neglect.

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Infants’ Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity

Cited by 729 publications

References 24 publications

The Human First Hypothesis: Identification of Conspecifics and Individuation of Objects in the Young Infant

The Human First Hypothesis: Identification of Conspecifics and Individuation of Objects in the Young Infant

Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy.

Object temporal connotation

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