| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 463 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition.
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| Note |
"32nd Carnegie Mellon symposium series on cognition." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Categorization (Psychology) in children -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa.
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Rakison, David H., 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carnegie Symposium on Cognition (32nd : 2002 : Carnegie-Mellon University). Building object categories in developmental time. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 0805844902 0805844910 (DLC) 2004052068 (OCoLC)55671644 |
| ISBN |
1410612902 (electronic bk.) |
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9781410612908 (electronic bk.) |
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0805844902 |
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0805844910 (pbk.) |
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