The Impact of Object Part Nameability on Learning Categories in Preschool and School Aged Children

Student: Monina Maria

Faculty: Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

Educational Programme: Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

Recently, a nameability effect was found in adults. It consists in the fact that a person better learns new categories if they are easily named. But do children have this effect? If they are not, can this effect be instigated by training? To try to answer these questions, the categorical learning task was used in children aged 6 to 9 years. Two experiments were carried out successively. The first experiment is the replication of G. Lupyan's experiment but on children. As a result, children do not have a nameability effect. In the second experiment, a verbalization training task was added to induce an effect in children. It turned out that the presence of training did not affect the results of the experiment. Collectively, the research show that the effect is limited by age and is observed only in adults.

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