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Causal Status and Explanatory Goodness in Categorization - eScholarship
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Causal Status and Explanatory Goodness in Categorization Jason Jameson & Dedre Gentner Northwestern University Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 USA psychology, the view that category knowledge comprises im...
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Spatial Language and Landmark Use: Can 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds find the Middle?
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Spatial Language and Landmark Use: Can 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds find the Middle? Nina Simms ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, Northwestern University 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 USA Dedre Gentner (gentner@...
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CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia - eScholarship
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30 th Anniversary Symposia: Cognitive Science: The Past 30 Years and the Next 30 Years Organizer: Lawrence W. Barsalou Symposium II: Trajectories of Cognitive Science Disciplines The 2008 Conference in Washington DC represents the 30 th...
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Relational language supports relational cognition in humans and apes
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Abstract We agree with Penn et al. that our human cognitive superiority derives from our exceptional relational ability. We far exceed other species in our ability to grasp analogies and to combine relations into higher-order structures...
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Early acquisition of nouns and verbs evidence from Navajo
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W hich words do children learn earliest, and why? These questions bear on the developmental origin of language and its connection to thought. The striking dominance of nouns in early English vocabularies has led researchers to ask wheth...
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Why some spatial semantic categories are harder to learn than others: The typological prevalence hypothesis
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F or me (Dedre) Dan has been a protean figure. 1 first met him when I was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego and he was a young professor at Berkeley. He was brilliant, charismatic, and compelling, yet at time...
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Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring
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Models and Analogies in Conceptual Restructuring Moderator: Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) Northwestern University, Department of Psychology 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Participants: Theodore Arabatzis (tarabatz@phs...
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