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Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing.

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Research on kinds of concepts indicates that children use perceptual and functional information differently to form natural and artifact concepts. Beyond object domain, object manipulability appears to be a decisive factor in adult conceptual processing. Thus, the effect of object manipulability on conceptual processing was tested in 5- and 7-year-olds and adults using a picture matching task. Reaction times for identifying conceptual relations on the basis of perceptual similarity (e.g., jacket-coat) and contextual/functional information (e.g., jacket-hanger) were analyzed according to object manipulability and domain. Both children and adults were faster to identify contextual/functional relations for manipulable than for nonmanipulable objects. Conversely, they were faster to identify perceptual similarity relations for nonmanipulable than for manipulable objects, particularly for natural concepts. Results reveal an early distinction between concepts of manipulable and nonmanipulable objects. Implications for further research on concept formation and for embodied views of concepts are discussed.

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hal-02109907 , version 1 (25-04-2019)

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Solène Kalénine, Françoise Bonthoux. Object manipulability affects children's and adults' conceptual processing.. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2008, 15 (3), pp.667-72. ⟨10.3758/pbr.15.3.667⟩. ⟨hal-02109907⟩
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