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Modeling Infant Learning via Symbolic Structural Alignment
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Abstract : Understanding the mechanisms of learning is one of the central questions of Cognitive Science. Recently Marcus et al. showed that seven-month-old infants can learn to recognize regularities in simple language-like stimuli. Ma...
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SEQL: Category learning as progressive abstraction using structure mapping
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ion using structure mapping Sven E. Kuehne ([email protected]) Kenneth D. Forbus ([email protected]) Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University 1890 Maple Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201 USA Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Br...
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Evidence for role-neutral initial processing of metaphors.
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Two models of metaphor processing are contrasted. The structure-mapping model postulates an initially role-neutral alignment process, followed by directional projection of inferences. The attributive categorization model postulates role...
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Spatial Mapping in Preschoolers: Close Comparisons Facilitate Far Mappings
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To test the hypothesis that comparison processes facilitate schema extraction, we studied the effect of making comparisons on 3-year-olds' ability to perform mapping tasks. In 3 studies, children were tested on their ability to find a h...
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Kinds of Kinds: Sources of Category Coherence
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Kinds of Kinds: Sources of Category Coherence Kenneth Jeffrey Kurtz ([email protected]) Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, 2029 Sheridan Rd Evanston, IL 60208-2710 USA Abstract...
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Language acquisition and conceptual development: Individuation, relativity, and early word learning
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Which words do children learn earliest, and why? These questions bear on how humans organize the world into semantic concepts, and how children acquire this parsing . A useful perspective is to think of how bits of experience are confla...
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