Bootstrapping in a language of thought: A formal model of numerical concept learning

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-217

  Piantadosi, Steven T ^a   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^b   Goodman, Noah D ^c  

^a Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Bootstrapping; Cognitive development; CP transition; Language of thought; Number word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; NUMERICAL CONCEPT LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; THINKING;

EID: 84858615535     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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