Research Catalog

Title

Building object categories in developmental time / edited by Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe and David H. Rakison.

Author

Carnegie Symposium on Cognition (32nd : 2002 : Carnegie-Mellon University)

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa.
• Rakison, David H., 1969-

Description

xvii, 463 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related questions concerning the representations and processes that underlie categorization and its development. This book covers a broad 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Categorization (Psychology) in children > Congresses
• Classification > methods
• Concept Formation > physiology
• Child Development
• Learning > physiology

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "32nd Carnegie Mellon symposium series on cognition."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. The segregation of face and object processing in development : a model system of categorization? / Charles A. Nelson and Kelly Snyder -- 2. Building knowledge from perception in infancy / Scott P. Johnson -- 3. Categories, kinds, and object individuation in infancy / Fei Xu -- 4. Bubbles : a user's guide / Frederic Gosselin and Philippe G. Schyns -- 5. Young infants' categorization of humans versus nonhuman animals : roles for knowledge access and perceptual process / Paul C. Quinn -- 6. The perceptual to conceptual shift in infancy and early childhood : a surface or deep distinction? / David H. Rakison -- 7. Emerging ideas about categories / Linda B. Smith -- 8. Imposing equivalence on things in the world : a dynamic systems perspective / Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe -- 9. Why can't you "open" a nut or "break" a cooked noodle? : learning covert object categories in action word meanings / Melissa Bowerman -- 10. The development of relational category knowledge / Dedre Gentner -- 11. Demystifying theory-based categorization / Woo-kyoung Ahn and Christian C. Luhmann -- 12. Can our experiments illuminate reality? / Brian MacWhinney -- 13. Knowledge, categorization, and the bliss of ignorance / Frank C. Keil -- 14. A parallel distributed processing approach to semantic cognition : applications to conceptual development / Timothy T. Rogers and James L. McClelland -- 15. Abstraction as dynamic interpretation in perceptual symbol systems / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- 16. Models of categorization : what are the limits? / Robert Siegler.

ISBN

• 0805844902
• 0805844910 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004052068

OCLC

• ocm55671644
• SCSB-5184949

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries