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Categorical Structure among Shared Features in Networks of Early-Learned Nouns
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Hills, Thomas T.; Maouene, Mounir; Maouene, Josita; Sheya, Adam; Smith, Linda – Cognition, 2009
The shared features that characterize the noun categories that young children learn first are a formative basis of the human category system. To investigate the potential categorical information contained in the features of early-learned nouns, we examine the graph-theoretic properties of noun-feature networks. The networks are built from the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Toddlers, Children, Child Language
Familial Patterns and the Origins of Individual Differences in Synaesthesia
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Barnett, Kylie J.; Finucane, Ciara; Asher, Julian E.; Bargary, Gary; Corvin, Aiden P.; Newell, Fiona N.; Mitchell, Kevin J. – Cognition, 2008
The term synaesthesia has been applied to a range of different sensory-perceptual and cognitive experiences, yet how these experiences are related to each other is not well understood. Not only are there disparate types of synaesthesia, but even within types there are vast individual differences in the way that stimuli induce synaesthesia and in…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Cognitive Ability, Sensory Experience, Perceptual Development
How Do Young Children Determine Location? Evidence from Disorientation Tasks
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Lourenco, Stella F.; Huttenlocher, Janellen – Cognition, 2006
Previous studies show that following disorientation children use the geometry of an enclosed space to locate an object hidden in one of the corners [e.g. (Harmer, L., & Spelke, E. (1996). Modularity and development: A case of spatial reorientation. "Cognition, 61," 195-232)]. These studies have used a disorientation procedure that involves…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Motion