Infants’ recognition of objects using canonical color

Kimura, Atsushi; Wada, Yuji; Yang, Jiale; Otsuka, Yumiko; Dan, Ippeita; Masuda, Takeshi; Kanazawa, Susumu; Yamaguchi, Masami K.

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.11.002

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“…This may have made it difficult for infants to perceive the disruptions of local shading relationships or color gradients that make negative images so disruptive in the special context of face recognition. However, we note that Kimura et al (2010) found that infants in our age range (6-to 8-months olds) were indeed sensitive to hue inversion in both faces and objects (fruits). This suggests that we cannot simply say that faces are "special" and thus the perception of their appearance depends on natural contrast polarity, but rather there is some broader pattern of competencies (and in the case of our data, limitations on sensitivity) that may reveal a more nuanced form of tuning to the natural statistics of appearance that changes with age.…”

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Neural sensitivity to natural texture statistics in infancy

Balas

Saville

Schmidt

2018

Developmental Psychobiology

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During infancy, vision becomes tuned to environmental statistics. For example, infant face recognition "narrows" in response to the frequency of face categories in the visual world, inducing out-group effects that disadvantage other-race, other-species, and other-age face recognition. There are many other low-level statistical regularities in visual experience that infants may also become tuned to during this period. In particular, natural scenes have lawful properties that adults and children are sensitive to. To what extent do infants become tuned to these regularities during the first year of life? In particular, do infants exhibit evidence of perceptual narrowing that excludes atypical images from fluent processing? We examined this question by measuring 6- and 9-month-old infants' event-related potentials (ERPs) to natural and artificial textures created by: (a) Disrupting local statistics via contrast negation, (b) Disrupting global statistics via parametric texture synthesis, or (c) both of these. We predicted that younger infants' would be sensitive to both manipulations of natural appearance, but that older infants might not distinguish between different kinds of atypical images. Instead, we found that sensitivity to synthetic appearance is only evident late in infancy. We discuss what these results imply for our understanding of visual statistical learning in infancy.

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Neural sensitivity to natural texture statistics in infancy

Balas

Saville

Schmidt

2018

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Infants may be free of these associations, or they may form different associations and/or have different object valences. Research suggests that infants can form color-object associations by as young as 6 months (Kimura et al, 2010), which raises the interesting possibility that colors have associated object valences in infancy as well. Further investigation of colorobject associations and their relationship to color preferences in infancy will be needed to investigate the plausibility of such explanations.…”

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Color preferences in infants and adults are different

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Adults commonly prefer blues most and greenish yellows least, but these hue preferences interact with lightness and saturation (e.g., dark yellow is particularly disliked: Palmer & Schloss (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: [8877][8878][8879][8880][8881][8882] 2010)). Here, we tested for a similar hue-by-lightness interaction in infant looking preferences, to determine whether adult preferences are evident early in life. We measured looking times for both infants and adults in the same paired-comparison task using all possible pairs of eight colors: four hues (red/yellow/green/blue) at two lightness levels (dark/light). The adult looking data were strikingly similar to other adults' explicit preference responses, indicating for the first time that adults look longer at colors that they like. Infants showed a significant hue-by-lightness interaction, but it was quite different from the adult pattern. In particular, infants had a stronger looking preference for dark yellow and a weaker preference for light blue than did adults. The findings are discussed in relation to theories on the origins of color preference.

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“…While this account could potentially explain categorical colour responses in adult non-human animals, its generalization to human infants is more debatable, because of their limited experience with objects and their colours during development. The extent to which infants have object colour knowledge remains unclear; some found evidence for object colour knowledge as early as 6 months after birth (Kimura et al, 2010); others claim that object-colour knowledge develops at later stages (Davidoff & Mitchell, 1993;Gleason et al, 2004). Another mechanism that could possibly explain categorical responses in infants is joint attention (Moore & Durham, 1995).…”

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The biological bases of colour categorisation: From goldfish to the human brain

Siuda‐Krzywicka

Boros

Bartolomeo

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Cortex

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We review research on the neural correlates of colour categories, and categorical responses in preverbal infants and animals. Our aim was to address the question of the functional segregation of colour categories from colour perception and colour language, i.e. whether or not colour categorisation shares processing resources with language and perception. Together, the reviewed findings suggest that colour categorisation often involves automatic language processing, but it can also occur in the absence of language or colour naming, as suggested by research on brain-damaged patients, preverbal infants, and non-human animals. Furthermore, there is no compelling evidence coming from human neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies, or from animal studies, that categorisation is inherent to colour perception. Instead, colour categorisation might simply build upon the continuous perception of colour and may interact with perception through the direction of attention to colour differences that are relevant to categorisation. Altogether, the reviewed evidence does not seem to offer a straightforward account of the origin of lexical colour categories. We suggest that future research in all areas (1) requires methodological improvements, in particular in stimulus control, (2) should overcome the universalist-realist debate and go beyond a simple contrast between perception and language, and (3) should consider the link between object colours and colour categories to establish both evolutionary and developmental continuity between categorical responses in animals, infants and adult humans.

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Infants’ recognition of objects using canonical color

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Neural sensitivity to natural texture statistics in infancy

Neural sensitivity to natural texture statistics in infancy

Color preferences in infants and adults are different

The biological bases of colour categorisation: From goldfish to the human brain

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