ReviewInfant behavior & development2019
Reproducibility and a unifying explanation: Lessons from the shape bias.
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- Differential Effects of Object Colour Variation on Word Learning in Autistic and Neurotypical Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Capturing the Heterogeneity of Word Learners by Analyzing Persons.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Relation between dimensional distinctiveness and comparison format in a novel noun generalization task in preschoolers.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How children generalize novel nouns: An eye-tracking analysis of their generalization strategies.PloS one · 2024Article
- Vocabulary and automatic attention: The relation between novel words and gaze dynamics in noun generalization.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Competition Between Object Topology and Surface Features in Children's Extension of Novel Nouns.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2023Article
- High-Level Visual Encoding Model Framework with Hierarchical Ventral Stream-Optimized Neural Networks.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- A Transformer-Based Capsule Network for 3D Part-Whole Relationship Learning.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects' Functions.Psychological science · 2021Article
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Abstract
The goal of science is to advance our understanding of particular phenomena. However, in the field of development, the phenomena of interest are complex, multifaceted, and change over time. Here, we use three decades of research on the shape bias to argue that while replication is clearly an important part of the scientific process, integration across the findings of many studies that include variations in procedure is also critical to create a coherent understanding of the thoughts and behaviors of young children. The "shape bias," or the tendency to generalize a novel label to novel objects of the same shape, is a reliable and robust behavioral finding and has been shown to predict future vocabulary growth and possible language disorders. Despite the robustness of the phenomenon, the way in which the shape bias is defined and tested has varied across studies and laboratories. The current review argues that differences in performance that come from even seemingly minor changes to the participants or task can offer critical insight to underlying mechanisms, and that working to incorporate data from multiple labs is an important way to reveal how task variation and a child's individual pathway creates behavior-a key issue for understanding developmental phenomena.
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