COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Research in education and cognitive development suggests that explaining plays a key role in learning and generalization: When learners provide explanations--even to themselves--t...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
many abstract categories (e.g., ``equivalence'') is innate. Although Plato argued with his contemporaries who advocated the empirical basis of knowledge, it was the Briti...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
We develop and evaluate a model of behavior on the Give-N task, a commonly used measure of young children's number knowledge. Our model uses the knower-level theory of how ch...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
This paper compares two explanations of the process by which human communication systems evolve: iterated learning and social collaboration. It then reports an experiment testing ...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Research into people's comprehension of novel noun-noun phrases has long neglected the possible influences of prosody during meaning construction. At the same time, work in c...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Recent research suggests that language evolution is a process of cultural change, in which linguistic structures are shaped through repeated cycles of learning and use by domain-g...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Learning to understand a single causal system can be an achievement, but humans must learn about multiple causal systems over the course of a lifetime. We present a hierarchical B...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
A multi-modal person representation contains information about what a person looks like and what a person sounds like. However, little is known about how children form these face-...
COGSCI
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Abecassis, Sera, Yonas, and Schwade (2001) have shown that young children represent shapes more metrically, and perhaps more holistically, than do older children and adults. How d...