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Thomas, Michael S. C. – Infancy, 2004
Three developmental connectionist models simulate a purported shift from "featural" to "correlational" processing in infant categorization (models: Gureckis & Love, 2004/this issue; Shultz & Cohen, 2004/this issue; Westermann & Mareschal, 2004/this issue; empirical data: Cohen & Arthur, 2003; Younger, 1985; Younger & Cohen, 1986). In this article,…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Developmental Stages, Correlation
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Graham, Susan A.; Stock, Hayli; Henderson, Annette M. E. – Infancy, 2006
We assessed 19-month-olds' appreciation of the conventional nature of object labels versus desires. Infants played a finding game with an experimenter who stated her intention to find the referent of a novel word (word group), to find an object she wanted (desire group), or simply to look in a box (control group). A 2nd experimenter then…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Infants, Infant Behavior, Child Development
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Younger, Barbara A.; Hollich, George; Furrer, Stephanie D. – Infancy, 2004
From Aesop to Sun Tzu, the importance of working together has long been acknowledged. Yet as long as cooperation has existed, so have the difficulties associated with it. Pooling two fields might mean twice the power, but this union also brings twice the jargon, twice the competing theories, and twice the head butting. Nonetheless, in this…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Classification, Age Differences