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Mayor, Julien; Plunkett, Kim – Psychological Review, 2010
We present a neurocomputational model with self-organizing maps that accounts for the emergence of taxonomic responding and fast mapping in early word learning, as well as a rapid increase in the rate of acquisition of words observed in late infancy. The quality and efficiency of generalization of word-object associations is directly related to…
Descriptors: Generalization, Vocabulary Development, Classification, Language Acquisition
Tommasi, Luca; Thinus-Blanc, Catherine – Learning & Memory, 2004
Rats were trained to search for a food reward hidden under sawdust in the center of a square-shaped enclosure designed to force orientation on the basis of the overall geometry of the environment. They were then tested in a number of enclosures differing in shape and in size (rectangular-, double-side square-, and equilateral triangle-shaped…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Animals, Spatial Ability