| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition.
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| Contents |
The segregation of face and object processing in development : a model system of categorization? / Charles A. Nelson and Kelly Snyder -- Building knowledge from perception in infancy / Scott P. Johnson -- Categories, kinds, and object individuation in infancy / Fei Xu -- Bubbles : a user's guide / Frédéric Gosselin and Philippe G. Schyns -- Young infants' categorization of humans versus nonhuman animals : roles for knowledge access and perceptual process / Paul C. Quinn -- The perceptual to conceptual shift in infancy and early childhood : a surface or deep distinction? / David H. Rakison -- Emerging ideas about categories / Linda B. Smith -- Imposing equivalence on things in the world : a dynamic systems perspective / Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe -- Why can't you "open" a nut or "break" a cooked noodle? Learning covert object categories in action word meanings / Melissa Bowerman -- The development of relational category knowledge / Dedre Gentner -- Demystifying theory-based categorization / Woo-kyoung Ahn and Christian C. Luhmann -- Can our experiments illuminate reality? / Brian MacWhinney -- Knowledge, categorization, and the bliss of ignorance / Frank C. Keil -- A parallel distributed processing approach to semantic cognition : applications to conceptual development / Timothy T. Rogers and James L. McClelland -- Abstraction as dynamic interpretation in perceptual symbol systems / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Models of categorization : what are the limits? / Robert Siegler |
| Summary |
The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. This book covers a range of current research topics in category development. Its aim is to understand the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that underlie category formation and how they change in developmental time |
| Notes |
"32nd Carnegie Mellon symposium series on cognition." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Categorization (Psychology) in children -- Congresses
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Child.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Child & Adolescent.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Child Development.
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Categorization (Psychology) in children.
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Categorization (Psychology) in children
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa.
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Rakison, David H., 1969-
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| ISBN |
1410612902 |
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9781410612908 |
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9780805844900 |
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0805844902 |
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9780805844917 |
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0805844910 |
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