Altercentric bias in preverbal infants' encoding of object kind

IF 2.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Cognition Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106074

Dora Kampis, Dimitrios Askitis, Victoria Southgate

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Abstract

Human infants may exhibit an altercentric bias, where the perspective of others biases their own cognition. This bias may serve a crucial learning function in early ontogeny. This work tested the two main predictions of an altercentric bias in 14-month-old infants: (i) conceptual information should also be encoded altercentrically, and (ii) the other's perspective may completely override infants' own processing. We probed if infants detect a semantic mismatch if hidden objects are labelled incorrectly from their own, or another person's perspective. Experiment 1 found a reduced electrophysiological mismatch response (the ‘N400’ event-related potential) when labeling was congruent from the other's perspective compared to incongruent, though it was always incongruent for the infant. Experiment 2 found no effect of (in)congruency from the infants' perspective when labeling was always congruent from the other's. These findings demonstrate a strong altercentric bias that prioritizes encoding conceptual information from others' perspective during early development.

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言语前婴儿客体种类编码中的互心偏差。

人类婴儿可能会表现出一种另类中心偏见，即他人的观点会影响他们自己的认知。这种偏见可能在早期个体发育中起着至关重要的学习作用。本研究在14个月大的婴儿中测试了关于替代中心偏见的两个主要预测：(i)概念信息也应该以替代中心的方式编码，（ii）他人的观点可能完全凌驾于婴儿自己的处理。我们研究了婴儿是否能从他们自己或其他人的角度发现隐藏的物体被错误地标记为语义不匹配。实验1发现，与不一致的标签相比，当从他人的角度来看标签是一致的时，电生理不匹配反应（“N400”事件相关电位）减少，尽管婴儿总是不一致的。实验2发现，当标签总是与他人一致时，从婴儿的角度来看，一致性没有影响。这些发现证明了一种强烈的替代中心偏见，在早期发展中优先考虑从他人的角度编码概念信息。

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Cognition PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

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6.40

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5.90%

发文量

283

期刊介绍： Cognition is an international journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind. It covers a wide variety of subjects concerning all the different aspects of cognition, ranging from biological and experimental studies to formal analysis. Contributions from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, ethology and philosophy are welcome in this journal provided that they have some bearing on the functioning of the mind. In addition, the journal serves as a forum for discussion of social and political aspects of cognitive science.