From perceptual to language-mediated categorization

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1634, 2014, Pages

  Westermann, Gert ^a   Mareschal, Denis ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Computational modelling; Infant categorization; Learning; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL THEORY;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT CATEGORIZATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; INFANT CATEGORIZATION; LEARNING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84889815048     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0391     Document Type: Review

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