The dynamic nature of knowledge: Insights from a dynamic field model of children's novel noun generalization

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 322-345

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a   Schutte, Anne R ^b   Horst, Jessica S ^c  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competence performance; Computational modeling; Developmental processes; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPETENCE; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 59649085963     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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