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Auditory information-integration category learning in young children and adults.

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Adults outperform children on category learning that requires selective attention to individual dimensions (rule-based categories) due to their more highly developed working memory abilities, but much less is known about… Click to show full abstract

Adults outperform children on category learning that requires selective attention to individual dimensions (rule-based categories) due to their more highly developed working memory abilities, but much less is known about developmental differences in learning categories that require integration across multiple dimensions (information-integration categories). The current study investigated auditory information-integration category learning in 5- to 7-year-old children (n = 34) and 18- to 25-year-old adults (n = 35). Adults generally outperformed children during learning. However, some children learned the categories well and used strategies similar to those of adults, as assessed through decision-bound computational models. The results demonstrate that information-integration learning ability continues to develop throughout at least middle childhood. These results have implications for the development of mechanisms that contribute to speech category learning.

Keywords: information integration; auditory information; category learning; integration

Journal Title: Journal of experimental child psychology
Year Published: 2019

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