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Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2010
Previous work demonstrated that 9-month-olds who were familiarized with 3-syllable strings consistent with both a broader (AAB or ABA) and narrower (AA"di" or A"di"A) generalization made only the latter. Because the narrower generalization is a subset of the broader one, any example that is consistent with the broader generalization but not the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Infants, Decision Making, Generalization
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Endress, Ansgar D.; Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine; Mehler, Jacques – Cognition, 2007
Cognitive processes are often attributed to statistical or symbolic general-purpose mechanisms. Here we show that some spontaneous generalizations are driven by specialized, highly constrained symbolic operations. We explore how two types of artificial grammars are acquired, one based on repetitions and the other on characteristic relations…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Generalization, Grammar, Physiology