Labels as features (not names) for infant categorization: A neurocomputational approach

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 709-738

  Gliozzi, Valentina ^a   Mayor, Julien ^b   Hu, Jon Fan ^b   Plunkett, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorization; Connectionist modeling; Hierarchical structure; Lexical development; Self Organizing maps; Unsupervised learning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349112751     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01026.x     Document Type: Article

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