“…In addition, young infants detect the functional relation between object parts and surfaces and use objects in ways that are consistent with these relations (Bourgeois, Khawar, Neal, & Lockman, 2005;Gibson & Walker, 1984;Molina & Jouen, 1998;Palmer, 1989;Ruff, 1984). Infants 8 to 18 months of age manipulate objects on the basis of the functions they afford (Freeman, Lloyd, & Sinha, 1980;Pier-LeBonniec, 1985), generalize functional properties to objects similar in appearance or that share important characteristics (Baldwin, Markman, & Melartin, 1993;Booth & Waxman, 2002a), and attend to novel ways objects can be used and imitate those actions (Meltzoff, 1988a,b). In addition, older infants and young children use object function as the basis for which to categorize objects, make inferences about the function of an object based on category membership, and extend labels to novel objects that function in a similar way (Booth, 2000(Booth, , 2006Booth & Waxman, 2002a;Kemler Nelson, 1995;Kemler Nelson, Frankenfield, Morris, & Blair, 2000;Kemler Nelson, Russell, Duke, & Jones, 2000;Madole & Cohen, 1995).…”