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Hammer, Rubi; Diesendruck, Gil; Weinshall, Daphna; Hochstein, Shaul – Cognition, 2009
Category learning can be achieved by identifying common features among category members, distinctive features among non-members, or both. These processes are psychologically and computationally distinct, and may have implications for the acquisition of categories at different hierarchical levels. The present study examines an account of children's…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Young Children, Classification, Novels
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Son, Ji Y.; Smith, Linda B.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Cognition, 2008
Development in any domain is often characterized by increasingly abstract representations. Recent evidence in the domain of shape recognition provides one example; between 18 and 24 months children appear to build increasingly abstract representations of object shape [Smith, L. B. (2003). Learning to recognize objects. "Psychological…
Descriptors: Generalization, Child Development, Experiments, Toddlers