Induction, overhypothesis, and the origin of abstract knowledge: Evidence from 9-month-old infants

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1871-1877

  Dewar, Kathryn M ^a   Xu, Fei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive development; inductive learning; overhypothesis formation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 78650369920     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610388810     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Carey, S., & Bartlett, E. (1978). Acquiring a single new word. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 15, 17-29.
2. Chomsky, N. (1980). Rules and representations. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
3. Denison, S., & Xu, F. (in press). Integrating physical constraints in statistical inference by 11-month-old infants. Cognitive Science.
4. Dewar, K.M., & Xu, F. (2007). Do 9-month-old infants expect distinct words to refer to kinds? Developmental Psychology, 43, 1227-1238.
5. Diesendruck, G., & Bloom, P. (2003). How specific is the shape bias? Child Development, 74, 168-178.
6. Goodman, N. (1983). Fact, fiction, and forecast. New York, NY: Bobbs-Merrill. (Original work published 1955).
7. Gopnik, A., & Sobel, D.M. (2000). Detecting blickets: How young children use information about causal properties in categorization and induction. Child Development, 71, 1205-1222.
8. Hume, D. (1993). An enquiry concerning human understanding. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Original work published 1748).
9. Jones, D. (2003). The generative psychology of kinship: Part 1. Cognitive universals and evolutionary psychology. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 303-319.
10. Kelley, H.H. (1972). Causal schemata and the attribution process. In E.E. Jones, D.E. Kanouse, H.H. Kelley, R.S. Nisbett, S. Valins, & B. Weiner (Eds.), Attribution: Perceiving the causes of behavior (pp. 151-174). Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press.
11. Kemp, C. (2008). The acquisition of inductive constraints. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
12. Kemp, C., Perfors, A., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2007). Learning overhypotheses with hierarchical Bayesian models. Developmental Science, 10, 307-321.
13. Landau, B., Smith, L.B., & Jones, S.S. (1988). The importance of shape in early lexical learning. Cognitive Development, 3, 299-321.
14. Macario, J.F., Shipley, E.F., & Billman, D.O. (1990). Induction from a single instance: Formation of a novel category. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 50, 179-199.
15. Madole, K.L., & Cohen, L.B. (1995). The role of object parts in infants' attention to form-function correlations. Developmental Psychology, 31, 637-648.
16. Nisbett, R.E., Krantz, D.H., Jepson, C., & Kunda, Z. (1983). The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning. Psychological Review, 90, 339-363.
17. Onishi, K.H., & Baillargeon, R. (2005). Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science, 308, 255-258.
18. Pinto, J. (2002). Hypercard (Version 2.4.1) [Computer software]. Palo Alto, CA: Author.
19. Quine, W.V.O. (1960). Word and object. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Robin, D.J., Berthier, N.E., & Clifton, R.K. (1996). Infants' predictive reaching for moving objects in the dark. Developmental Psychology, 32, 824-835.
21. Saffran, J.R., Pollak, S.D., Seibel, R.L., & Shkolnik, A. (2007). Dog is a dog is a dog: Infant rule learning is not specific to language. Cognition, 105, 669-680.
22. Shipley, E.F. (1993). Categories, hierarchies and induction. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 30, 265-301.
23. Smith, L.B., Jones, S.S., Landau, B., Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Samuelson, L. (2002). Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention. Psychological Science, 13, 13-19.
24. Spelke, E.S., Breinlinger, K., Macomber, J., & Jacobson, K. (1992). Origins of knowledge. Psychological Review, 99, 605-632.
25. Tyrrell, D.J., Stauffer, L.B., & Snowman, L.G. (1991). Perception of abstract identity/difference relationships by infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 14, 125-129.
26. Tyrrell, D.J., Zingardo, M.C., & Minard, K.L. (1993). Learning and transfer of identity-difference relationships by infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 43-52.
27. Xu, F., & Denison, S. (2009). Statistical inference and sensitivity to sampling in 11-month-old infants. Cognition, 112, 97-104.
28. Xu, F., & Garcia, V. (2008). Intuitive statistics by 8-month-old infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 5012-5015.