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Infants accept arbitrary objects as ad-hoc symbols

2025-12-09

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<p>The ability to process visual objects as symbols is fundamental to the interpretation of depictions such as maps, graphs, diagrams, and animations. We outline a cognitive mechanism that may underlie the interpretation of depictions and present three eye-tracking and looking-time experiments (n = 192) indicating that this ability is already in place in 15-month-old infants. Experiment 1 showed that infants can a...

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Literature Corpus work: c60a2d98-e61a-5f3b-94cc-212ac98f2cdb
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/62npg_v1

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