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Early category and concept development : making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion /

This text brings together contemporary findings and theories about the origins and early development of categorization and conceptual abilities. Despite advances in our understanding of this area, a number of hotly debated issues remain at the centre of the controversy over categorization.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rakison, David H., 1969-, Oakes, Lisa M., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword, Categories, cognitive development, and cognitive science / Frank C. Keil
  • Issues in the early development of concepts and categories : an introduction / Lisa M. Oakes and David H. Rakison
  • Chunking language input to find patterns / Peter W. Jusczyk
  • Concepts are not just for objects : categorization of spatial relation information by infants / Paul C. Quinn
  • Parsing objects into categories : infants' perception and use of correlated attributes / Barbara A. Younger
  • Conceptual categorization / Jean M. Mandler
  • Principles of developmental change in infants' category formation / Lisa M. Oakes and Kelly L. Madole
  • Parts, motion, and the development of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy / David H. Rakison
  • Commentary on Part I : unresolved issues in infant categorization / Leslie B. Cohen
  • Links between object categorization and naming : origins and emergence in human infants / Sandra R. Waxman
  • Transaction of child cognitive-linguistic abilities and adult input in the acquisition of lexical categories at the basic and subordinate levels / Carolyn B. Mervis, John R. Pani, and Ariel M. Pani.
  • Making an ontology : cross-linguistic evidence / Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Hanako Yoshida
  • Words, kinds, and causal powers : a theory theory perspective on early naming and categorization / Alison Gopnik and Thierry Nazzi
  • Theory-based categorization in early childhood / Susan A. Gelman and Melissa A. Koenig
  • Acquisition and use of implicit categories in early development / Denis Mareschal
  • Commentary on Part II : abilities and assumptions underlying conceptual development / Ellen M. Markman and Vikram K. Jaswal
  • Final commentary : conceptual development from origins to asymptotes / Robert L. Goldstone and Mark K. Johansen.