Building Object Categories in Developmental Time (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface. C.A. Nelson, K. Snyder, The Segregation of Face and Object Processing in Development: A Model System of Categorization? S.P. Johnson, Building Knowledge From Perception in Infancy. F. Xu, Categories, Kinds, and Object Individuation in Infancy. F. Gosselin, P.G. Schyns, Bubbles: A User's Guide. P.C. Quinn, Young Infants' Categorization of Humans Versus Nonhuman Animals: Roles for Knowledge Access and Perceptual Process. D.H. Rakison, The Perceptual to Conceptual Shift in Infancy and Early Childhood: A Surface or Deep Distinction? L.B. Smith, Emerging Ideas About Categories. L. Gershkoff-Stowe, Imposing Equivalence on Things in the World: A Dynamic Systems Perspective. M. Bowerman, Why Can't You "Open" a Nut or "Break" a Cooked Noodle? Learning Covert Object Categories in Action Word Meanings. D. Gentner, The Development of Relational Category Knowledge. W-k. Ahn, C.C. Luhmann, Demystifying Theory-Based Categorization. B. MacWhinney, Can Our Experiments Illuminate Reality? F.C. Keil, Knowledge, Categorization, and the Bliss of Ignorance. T.T. Rogers, J.L. McClelland, A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach to Semantic Cognition: Applications to Conceptual Development. L.W. Barsalou, Abstraction as Dynamic Interpretation in Perceptual Symbol Systems. R. Siegler, Models of Categorization: What Are the Limits?