Developing object concepts in infancy
Subtitle: an associative learning perspective
By: David H. Rakison and Gary Lupyan ; with commentary by Lisa M. Oakes, Arlene S. Walker-Andrews ; W. Andrew Collins, series editor.
Contributors: Lupyan, Gary.; Oakes, Lisa M., 1963-; Walker-Andrews, Arlene S.; Collins, W. Andrew, 1944-.
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- serial no. 289, v. 73, no. 1; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- v. 73, no. 1.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Concept learning.; Infants -- Development.; Body, Human.
Other titles: Developing object concepts in infancy
Description: "[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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109).
Table of contents: title: Abstract; title: Introduction; title: A connectionist model for early learning about animates and inanimates; title: Simulations 1a, 1b, and 1c: the role of moving parts in forming representations of objects; title: Simulations 2a and 2b: the role of moving parts in forming representations of objects presented in a category context; title: Learning initial mappings between labels and object features: simulations and experiments with infants; title: Simulation 4: a model of Rakison, 2005A: animacy relations in causal events; title: Simulation 5: a model of Rakison, 2006: animacy relations in noncausal events; title: General discussion.; title: Associationist learning as a basis of knowledge in infancy / Lisa M. Oakes; title: Encountering concepts in context / Arlene S. Walker-Andrews.