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Structure mapping and relational language support children's learning of relational categories.
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Learning relational categories--whose membership is defined not by intrinsic properties but by extrinsic relations with other entities--poses a challenge to young children. The current work showed 3-, 4- to 5-, and 6-year-olds pairs of ...
Publication · October 16, 2024
The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics: Language and Cognition in Development
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arenas, such as mathematics and time, than in more concrete domains such as color? Does language for emotions and for thought processes influence the way in which we construe our own minds? Does learning a technical language influence a...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Causal Systems Categories: Differences in Novice and Expert Categorization of Causal Phenomena
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We investigated the understanding of causal systems categories--categories defined by common causal structure rather than by common domain content--among college students. We asked students who were either novices or experts in the phys...
Publication · October 16, 2024
What Difference Reveals About Similarity
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Detecting that two images are different is faster for highly dissimilar images than for highly similar images. Paradoxically, we showed that the reverse occurs when people are asked to describe how two images differ--that is, to state a...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12221)
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A major focus in the design of Semantic Web ontology languages used to be on finding a suitable balance between the expressivity of the language and the tractability of reasoning services defined over this language. This focus mirrors t...
Publication · October 16, 2024
The role of comparison in structure learning: Developmental, learning science, and computational perspectives
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The role of comparison in structure learning: Developmental, learning science, and computational perspectives Stella Christie ([email protected]) & Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) University of British Columbia, Dept. Psycholo...
Publication · October 16, 2024