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Developing Object Concepts In Infancy : An Associative Learning Perspective

Titles
- Developing Object Concepts In Infancy
- Monographs Of The Society For Research In Child Development
Attribution
David H. Rakison and Gary Lupyan ; with commentary by Lisa M. Oakes, Arlene S. Walker-Andrews ; W. Andrew Collins, series editor
Publication Details
Book, Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2008
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(LOWER LEVEL) BF720.C63 R35 2008 AVAILABLE
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- "[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