Casasola Marianella, Wilbourn Makeba Parramore
Department of Human Development, Cornell University.
Infancy. 2004 Feb 1;6(3):385-396. doi: 10.1207/s15327078in0603_4.
This study explored 14-month-old infants' ability to form novel word-spatial relation associations. During habituation, infants heard 1 novel word (e.g., teek) while viewing dynamic containment events (i.e., Big Bird placed in a box) and, on other habituation trials, a second novel word (e.g., blick) while viewing dynamic support events (i.e., Big Bird placed on the box). Each novel word was presented in a sentence (e.g., "She's putting Big Bird teek the box"). During the test, infants discriminated an event that maintained the habituation word-relation pairing from one that presented a switch in this pairing. The results indicate that 14-month-olds can learn to form word-relation associations quickly, requiring only a few minutes of experience with each word-relation pairing.
本研究探讨了14个月大婴儿形成新的单词-空间关系联想的能力。在习惯化阶段,婴儿在观看动态容纳事件(即大鸟被放进盒子里)时听到一个新单词(如teek),而在其他习惯化试验中,在观看动态支撑事件(即大鸟被放在盒子上)时听到第二个新单词(如blick)。每个新单词都出现在一个句子中(如“她把大鸟放进盒子里teek”)。在测试阶段,婴儿能够区分保持习惯化单词-关系配对的事件和呈现这种配对切换的事件。结果表明,14个月大的婴儿能够快速学会形成单词-关系联想,每种单词-关系配对只需几分钟的体验。