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Rasanen, Okko – Cognition, 2011
Word segmentation from continuous speech is a difficult task that is faced by human infants when they start to learn their native language. Several studies indicate that infants might use several different cues to solve this problem, including intonation, linguistic stress, and transitional probabilities between subsequent speech sounds. In this…
Descriptors: Speech, Infants, Cues, Language Acquisition
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van Ravenzwaaij, Don; Brown, Scott; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Cognition, 2011
Research in the field of mental chronometry and individual differences has revealed several robust regularities (Jensen, 2006). These include right-skewed response time (RT) distributions, the worst performance rule, correlations with general intelligence ("g") that are more pronounced for RT standard deviations (RTSD) than they are for RT means…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Reaction Time, Individual Differences, Information Processing
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Piantadosi, Steven T.; Tenenbaum, Joshua B.; Goodman, Noah D. – Cognition, 2012
In acquiring number words, children exhibit a qualitative leap in which they transition from understanding a few number words, to possessing a rich system of interrelated numerical concepts. We present a computational framework for understanding this inductive leap as the consequence of statistical inference over a sufficiently powerful…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Number Concepts, Models, Computation
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Verdonschot, Rinus G.; Middelburg, Renee; Lensink, Saskia E.; Schiller, Niels O. – Cognition, 2012
In a long-lag morphological priming experiment, Dutch (L1)-English (L2) bilinguals were asked to name pictures and read aloud words. A design using non-switch blocks, consisting solely of Dutch stimuli, and switch-blocks, consisting of Dutch primes and targets with intervening English trials, was administered. Target picture naming was facilitated…
Descriptors: Priming, Inhibition, Cognitive Processes, Indo European Languages
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Pacherie, Elisabeth – Cognition, 2008
After a long period of neglect, the phenomenology of action has recently regained its place in the agenda of philosophers and scientists alike. The recent explosion of interest in the topic highlights its complexity. The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework allowing for a more precise characterization of the many facets of…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Guidelines, Models, Intention
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Pothos, Emmanuel M.; Close, James – Cognition, 2008
When participants are asked to spontaneously categorize a set of items, they typically produce unidimensional classifications, i.e., categorize the items on the basis of only one of their dimensions of variation. We examine whether it is possible to predict unidimensional vs. two-dimensional classification on the basis of the abstract stimulus…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Prediction
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Verguts, Tom; Opstal, Filip Van – Cognition, 2008
Cohen Kadosh, Tzelgov, and Henik [Cohen Kadosh, R., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (2008). A synesthetic walk on the number line: The size effect. "Cognition", 106, 548-557] present a new paradigm to probe properties of the mental number line. They describe two experiments which they argue to be inconsistent with the exact small number model proposed by…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Experiments, Effect Size, Mathematical Models
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Chater, Nick – Cognition, 2009
This special issue describes important recent developments in applying reinforcement learning models to capture neural and cognitive function. But reinforcement learning, as a theoretical framework, can apply at two very different levels of description: "mechanistic" and "rational." Reinforcement learning is often viewed in mechanistic terms--as…
Descriptors: Brain, Educational Technology, Reinforcement, Sciences
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Musolino, Julien – Cognition, 2009
Recent work on the acquisition of number words has emphasized the importance of integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives [Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: Integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. "Cognition 93", 1-41; Papafragou, A., Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Scalar…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Syntax
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Quinlan, Philip T.; van der Maas, Han L. J.; Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Booij, Olaf; Rendell, Mark – Cognition, 2007
The present paper re-appraises connectionist attempts to explain how human cognitive development appears to progress through a series of sequential stages. Models of performance on the Piagetian balance scale task are the focus of attention. Limitations of these models are discussed and replications and extensions to the work are provided via the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Models
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Pennington, Bruce F. – Cognition, 2006
The emerging etiological model for developmental disorders, like dyslexia, is probabilistic and multifactorial while the prevailing cognitive model has been deterministic and often focused on a single cognitive cause, such as a phonological deficit as the cause of dyslexia. So there is a potential contradiction in our explanatory frameworks for…
Descriptors: Models, Developmental Disabilities, Etiology, Dyslexia
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Goldman, Alvin I.; Sripada, Chandra Sekhar – Cognition, 2005
Recent studies of emotion mindreading reveal that for three emotions, fear, disgust, and anger, deficits in face-based recognition are paired with deficits in the production of the same emotion. What type of mindreading process would explain this pattern of paired deficits? The simulation approach and the theorizing approach are examined to…
Descriptors: Models, Psychological Patterns, Recognition (Psychology), Simulation