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Infants’ recognition of objects using canonical color |
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| Authors: | Atsushi Kimura Jiale Yang Ippeita Dan So Kanazawa |
| Affiliation: | a Sensory and Cognitive Food Science Laboratory, National Food Research Institute, Ibaraki 305-8642, Japan b Department of Psychology, Chuo University, Tokyo 192-0393, Japan c Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo 102-8472, Japan d Department of Psychology, Japan Women’s University, Kanagawa 214-8565, Japan e Precursor Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST-PRESTO), Saitama 351-0198, Japan |
| Abstract: | We explored infants’ ability to recognize the canonical colors of daily objects, including two color-specific objects (human face and fruit) and a non-color-specific object (flower), by using a preferential looking technique. A total of 58 infants between 5 and 8 months of age were tested with a stimulus composed of two color pictures of an object placed side by side: a correctly colored picture (e.g., red strawberry) and an inappropriately colored picture (e.g., green-blue strawberry). The results showed that, overall, the 6- to 8-month-olds showed preference for the correctly colored pictures for color-specific objects, whereas they did not show preference for the correctly colored pictures for the non-color-specific object. The 5-month-olds showed no significant preference for the correctly colored pictures for all object conditions. These findings imply that the recognition of canonical color for objects emerges at 6 months of age. |
| Keywords: | Typical color Infant cognition Canonically colored object Child development Color vision Color diagnosticity |
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