| Description |
vii, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; serial no. 289, v. 73, no. 1 |
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109). |
| Summary |
"[Rakison and Lupyan] present a domain-general framework called constrained attentional associative learning to provide a developmental account for how and when infants form concepts for animates and inanimates that encapsulate not only their surface appearance but also their movement characteristics. ... "--p. vii. |
| Contents |
CONTENTS, Abstract -- Introduction -- A connectionist model for early learning about animates and inanimates -- Simulations 1a, 1b, and 1c: the role of moving parts in forming representations of objects -- Simulations 2a and 2b: the role of moving parts in forming representations of objects presented in a category context -- Learning initial mappings between labels and object features: simulations and experiments with infants -- Simulation 4: a model of Rakison, 2005A: animacy relations in causal events -- Simulation 5: a model of Rakison, 2006: animacy relations in noncausal events -- General discussion. |
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COMMENTARY, Associationist learning as a basis of knowledge in infancy / Lisa M. Oakes -- Encountering concepts in context / Arlene S. Walker-Andrews. |
| Subject |
Learning -- Psychology.
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Concept learning.
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Infants -- Development.
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Human body.
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| Added Author |
Lupyan, Gary.
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Oakes, Lisa M., 1963-
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Walker-Andrews, Arlene S.
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Collins, W. Andrew, 1944-
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| Spine Title |
Developing object concepts in infancy |
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