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Heather Bruett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Conceptual representations can be altered to align with the current context given learning and task goals. One cognitive process, known as conceptual combination, allows for a unique perspective for exploring how complex conceptual processing occurs and how this processing influences the underlying representations of concepts. During novel nominal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Cognitive Processes, Nouns
Ekaterina Andreevna Khlystova – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the interaction of developing extralinguistic cognitive systems with early language learning and processing through the case study of verb argument structure. The interaction of these systems with the linguistic system underpins fundamental theories of language learning and use: language does not exist in isolation.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Verbs
Jiaqing Tong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Though efforts have been made for centuries, how concepts are represented in the brain is still elusive. The embodiment view claims that the sensory, motor and other brain areas through which people acquire concept information during life experiences represent this information during concept retrieval. Some compelling neurobiological evidence…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Evidence, Models
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Bossé, Michael J.; Bayaga, Anass; Fountain, Catherine; Young, Erica Slate – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2019
This study investigates representational code-switching (RCS) by considering three high school students' communications in the process of comparing and contrasting pairs of representations (e.g., equation and graph) in the context of rational functions. Supporting this study is research in the realms of students interacting with mathematical…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Dudley, Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation focuses on when and how children learn about the meanings of the propositional attitude" verbs know" and "think". "Know" and "think" both express belief. But they differ in their veridicality: "think" is non-veridical and can report a false belief; but "know" can only…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Child Development, Verbs
Holmes, Kevin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many cognitive scientists regard language as a rich source of evidence about the human mind. Much research over the past forty years has been driven by the assumption that words reveal underlying concepts. At the same time, cross-linguistic work has shown that languages differ dramatically in how they partition the world by name. To maintain the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Theory, Semantics
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Fernandino, Leonardo; Iacoboni, Marco – Brain and Language, 2010
The embodied cognition approach to the study of the mind proposes that higher order mental processes such as concept formation and language are essentially based on perceptual and motor processes. Contrary to the classical approach in cognitive science, in which concepts are viewed as amodal, arbitrary symbols, embodied semantics argues that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation
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Jones, Matt; Love, Bradley C. – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
Historically, accounts of object representation and perceived similarity have focused on intrinsic features. Although more recent accounts have explored how objects, scenes, and situations containing common relational structures come to be perceived as similar, less is known about how the perceived similarity of parts or objects embedded within…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Language Processing, Hypothesis Testing, Role
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Gagne, Christina L.; Spalding, Thomas L.; Ji, Hongbo – Journal of Memory and Language, 2005
In a recent study of conceptual combination, Estes (2003) presented evidence for the priming of relational information in the absence of shared constituents between the prime and target (e.g., "pancake spatula" was interpreted more quickly following "bacon tongs" than following "city riots"). He argued that these data support the view that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Experiments, Syntax
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1990
Previous cognitive science research demonstrates how the Agent-action-Objective (AaO) paradigm controls the cognitive processes of differentiation and integration. The present discussion advances the process to the fourth of five phases. Of the four dependent variables emerging at this stage, two are discussed: zero processing and variations in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Levy, David K. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Considers two notable recent philosophical theories of concepts in relation to some challenges set by Wittgenstein in his notorious private language argument. The challenge is formulated in terms of constraints on the explanation of the relation between thought and language. Shows how these theories of concepts relate to constraints that arise…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Language Processing
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Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; And Others – Cognition, 1996
In three experiments, children listened to a story and were asked to repeat "the last word" or "the last thing" they heard. Found that children as young as 4.5 to 5 years treat both open and closed categories as words and clearly differentiate between words and things, contradicting the notion that children cannot focus on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Processing, Metalinguistics
McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Three experiments were conducted to study the inferencing processes involved in anaphoric reference. Results show that an anaphora activates both its referent and concepts when in the same proposition as the referent, and that all three, when in the same proposition, are connected in the long-term representation of a text. (PJM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Chapman, Robin S.; Thompson, Jean – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Previous research has reported instances in which some two-year-olds failed to overextend in comprehension what they overextended in use. Fremgen and Fay found no instance of overextension in comprehension in separate experiments. From this Fremgen and Fay conclude children never overextend in comprehension. This conclusion is re-evaluated here.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Comprehension
Hayes-Roth, Barbara; Hayes-Roth, Frederick – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
The "property-set model" is proposed for concept learning and subsequent recognition and classification of old and new exemplars. In an experimental evaluation of alternative models, the property-set model was the best predictor of both recognition and classification performance. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Processing
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