Just how competent are very young infants?
Recent research suggests that infants have a great deal of knowledge about their world
and sophisticated mechanisms for acquiring new information. In the Infant Cognition
Lab, we are using a variety of techniques to fully understand some of these early
capabilities.
One of the most essential developmental processes is categorization: the ability to
group similar objects together in useful and meaningful ways. We are examining three
aspects of this process:
For more information please contact Dr. Kelly Madole (Kelly.Madole@wku.edu).
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