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Two experiments were run to investigate how preschoolers use the pattern of an object's change as a cue to noticing correlations among the object's subsequent features. Four-year-old children were familiarized with either an internally or externally-driven transformation of an object, and tested for identification of an animation that did not match the familiar sequence of the object's features. In both experiments children in the internal-change group identified the incorrect sequence significantly more quickly than in the external-change condition. These results strongly suggest that perception of internally-driven transformation facilitates the formation of and/or access to a representation of correspondences between subsequent features of an object. The possible role of this mechanism in essentialist thinking is discussed at the end of the paper.
VERSITA Central European Science Publishers, Warsaw, http://versita.com, in cooperation with journal's owner - Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
VERSITA Central European Science Publishers, Warsaw, http://versita.com, in cooperation with journal's owner - Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw