{"pk":28229,"title":"Week-long practice matching 2D objects by shape improves 3D shape bias and accelerates children vocabulary growth","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Young children tend to generalize novel names by shape; when asked to match a novel object to one of two objectsthey often choose the one that matches in shape. This shape bias has been shown in laboratory tasks to be connected tovocabulary learning: children who know less than 50 words do not show this bias and training using object categorieswell-organized by shape improves children’s word-learning. An open question is whether experience with real (3D)objects is necessary or children can transfer from practice matching 2D objects. In this project, we used a week-long athome intervention with an iPad game. Compared to a version of the game that asks children to establish identity matches,children who played with 2D shape matches for a week have a more robust shape bias with real-world objects at posttestas well as a modest effect in vocabulary growth 2 months later.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98m437h4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Paulo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Carvalho","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon","department":""},{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28229/galley/17888/download/"}]}