Language and concept acquisition from infancy through childhood : learning from multiple exemplars /: learning from multiple exemplars. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jane B. Childres, editor.
• Editors: Childers, Jane B
• Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Statistical Learning in Infancy -- Statistical Learning in Infancy -- Kinds of Statistical Structure Infants Are Able to Learn -- Testing Methods -- Implications of Infant SL for Cognitive Development and Developmental Disabilities -- Mechanisms Underlying Statistical Learning in Infancy -- Conclusions and Broader Implications -- References -- Chapter 3: How Multiple Exemplars Matter for Infant Spatial Categorization -- Why Spatial Relations? -- Do Infants Require Multiple Exemplars for Forming Spatial Categories? -- Procedures for Testing Infants' Categorization of Spatial Relations -- Does Infant Spatial Categorization Benefit from Multiple Examples? -- What Mechanisms Are Central to Infant Spatial Categorization? -- How Could the Other Theories in This Area Impact or Contribute to Your Findings? -- Can Infant Spatial Categorization Inform Other Types of Spatial Learning? -- References -- Chapter 4: How the Demands of a Variable Environment Give Rise to Statistical Learning -- Conditional Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition -- Distributional Statistics -- Representing Variability Across Exemplars -- Encoding and Generalization in Memory -- Memory and Statistical Learning -- References -- Chapter 5: Structure-Mapping Processes Enable Infants' Learning Across Domains Including Language -- When Is High Variability Helpful and When Not? -- Promoting Relational Learning -- What Paradigms Are Usually Used to Test Our Theory? -- How Could Structure-Mapping Theory Extend Beyond Contexts? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Emergence of Inductive Reasoning During Infancy: Learning from Single and Multiple Exemplars -- Inductive Reasoning During Early Childhood -- Inductive Reasoning in Infancy -- Developmental Origins of Inductive Reasoning -- Unfamiliar Animal Categories -- Familiar Animal Categories -- Learning from One Versus Many: Integrating Findings Across Studies -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Learning Individual Verbs and the Verb System: When Are Multiple Examples Helpful? -- Children's Challenge in Acquiring the Lexical System of Verbs -- Bootstrapping from Perceptual to Relational Similarity in Extracting the Core of Verb Meanings -- Use of Multimodal Similarity (Iconicity) -- Use of Object Similarity -- Summary and Implications -- An Additional Mechanism for Verb Learning: Contrast -- Verb Meaning Acquisition Within the Constraints of the Lexical System -- Complexity of the Semantic Structures in Lexical Domains in the Real World -- What Do Children Need to Discover to Acquire Verbs in a Complex-Structured Lexical Domain? -- Findings from the "Carry" Verb Acquisition Study -- How Many Verb Types Did Children Know? -- Does Children's Representation of the Lexical Domain Stay the Same Between 3 and 7? -- Reliance of Object Similarity to Structure the Semantic Domain.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 372.21; Early childhood education; Cognition in children; Learning, Psychology of; Children; Learning ability; Children; Cognition in children; Early childhood education; Learning ability; Learning, Psychology of
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030355944; 3030355942
• Related ISBNs: 9783030355937
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