David H. Rakison, Lisa M. Oakes

Early Category and Concept Development (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Whether or not infants' earliest perception of the world is a "blooming, buzzing, confusion," it is not long before they come to perceive structure and order among the objects and events around them. At the core of this process, and cognitive development in general, is the ability to categorize--to group events, objects, or properties together--and to form mental representations, or concepts, that encapsulate the commonalities and structure of these categories. Categorization is the primary means of coding experience, underlying not only perceptual and reasoning processes, but also inductive inference and language. The aim of this book is to bring together the most recent findings and theories about the origins and early development of categorization and conceptual abilities. Despite recent advances in our understanding of this area, a number of hotly debated issues remain at the center of the controversy over categorization. Researchers continue to ask questions such as: Which mechanisms for categorization are available at birth and which emerge later? What are the relative roles of perceptual similarity and nonobservable properties in early classification? What is the role of contextual variation in categorization by infants and children? Do different experimental procedures reveal the same kind of knowledge? Can computational models simulate infant and child categorization? How do computational models inform behavioral research? What is the impact of language on category development? How does language partition the world? This book is the first to address these and other key questions within a single volume. The authors present a diverse set of views representing cutting-edge empirical and theoretical advances in the field. The result is a thorough review of empirical contributions to the literature, and a wealth of fresh theoretical perspectives on early categorization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199724123
• Artikelnr.: 54553119

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: Categories, Cognitive Development, and Cognitive Science
* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* 1: Lisa M. Oakes and David H. Rakison: Issues in the Early
Development of Concepts and Categories: An Introduction
* PART I. CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES BEFORE THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE
* 2: Peter W. Jusczyk: Chunking Language Input to Find Patterns
* 3: Paul C. Quinn: Concepts Are Not Just for Objects: Categorization
of Spatial Relation Information by Infants
* 4: Barbara A. Younger: Parsing Objects into Categories: Infants'
Perception and Use of Correlated Attributes
* 5: Jean M. Mandler: Conceptual Categorization
* 6: Lisa M. Oakes and Kelly L. Madole: Principles of Developmental
Change in Infants' Category Formation
* 7: David H. Rakison: Parts, Motion, and the Development of the
Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Infancy
* 8: Leslie B. Cohen: Commentary on Part I: Unresolved Issues in Infant
Categorization
* PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES DURING EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
* 9: Sandra R. Waxman: Links between Object Categorization and Naming:
Origins and Emergence in Human Infants
* 10: Carolyn B. Mervis, John R. Pani, and Ariel M. Pani: Transaction
of Child Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities and Adult Input in the
Acquisition of Lexical Categories at the Basic and Subordinate Levels
* 11: Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Hanako Yoshida: Making an
Ontology: Cross-linguistic Evidence
* 12: Alison Gopnik and Thierry Nazzi: Words, Kinds, and Causal Powers:
A Theory Theory Perspective on Early Naming and Categorization
* 13: Susan A. Gelman and Melissa A. Koenig: Theory-Based
Categorization in Early Childhood
* 14: Denis Mareschal: The Acquisition and Use of Implicit Categories
in Early Development
* 15: Ellen M. Markman and Vikram K. Jaswal: Commentary on Part II:
Abilities and Assumptions Underlying Conceptual Development
* 16: Robert L. Goldstone and Mark K. Johansen: Final Commentary:
Conceptual Development from Origins to Asymptotes
* Author Index
* Subject Index