Research Catalog

Title

Early category and concept development : making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion / edited by David H. Rakison and Lisa M. Oakes.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Rakison, David H., 1969-
• Oakes, Lisa M., 1963-

Description

xxi, 442 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Cognition in infants
• Perception in infants

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 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.

ISBN

• 0195142934 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0195142942 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002000772

OCLC

• ocm48851338
• SCSB-4331084

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries