Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children

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• dc.contributor.author Hinzen, Wolfram
• dc.contributor.author Peinado, Elisa
• dc.contributor.author Perry, Scott James
• dc.contributor.author Schroeder, Kristen
• dc.contributor.author Lombardo, Mariana
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-13T07:17:25Z
• dc.date.available 2023-03-13T07:17:25Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Language plays a well-documented role in perceptual object categorization, but little is known about its role in the categorization of complex events. We explored this here with a perspective from age or developmentally appropriate language capacities in neurotypical children between the ages of two and four years (N = 21), and from delayed language development in a clinical group of children (N = 20), whose verbal mental ages (VMA) often fell far below their chronological ages (CAs). All participants watched two demonstrations of a series of transitive events (e.g. tiger jumps over a girl). The toy agents were then moved out of sight, and participants had to act out the same event type, based on a different tiger and girl that were selected among two distractors. We aimed to determine how mastery of this task relates to CA in the neurotypical group, and whether task performance in the clinical group was predicted by VMA and a standardized measure of grammatical comprehension. Results from a series of logistic mixed-effect regression models showed that neurotypical children start to perform correctly on this task with a chance of around 50% during their third year of CA but reach ceiling performance only during their fourth. A similar pattern emerged for VMA in the clinical group, despite a wide range of CAs and diagnoses. In addition, grammatical comprehension predicted performance. These patterns suggest that language competence plays a role in the perceptual categorization and encoding of complex reversible events.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR) (2017 SGR 1265, author WH), and grant PID2019-105241GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 provided by the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU) and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (author WH).
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• dc.identifier.citation Hinzen W, Peinado E, Perry SJ, Schroeder K, Lombardo M. Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children. Heliyon. 2022;8(7):e09933. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09933
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09933
• dc.identifier.issn 2405-8440
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56170
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Heliyon. 2022;8(7):e09933.
• dc.relation.isreferencedby https://figshare.com/s/c54f8ea1dac98faa4a5a
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-105241GB-I00
• dc.rights © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Event cognition
• dc.subject.keyword Language impairment
• dc.subject.keyword Categorization
• dc.subject.keyword Abstraction
• dc.subject.keyword Concepts
• dc.title Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children
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