Concept formation in infancy

By Jean M. Mandler, Laraine Mcdonough. 1993

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Anatomy of Catastrophic Forgetting: Hidden Representations and Task Semantics (2020, background): “A fundamental property of biological and artiﬁcial neural networks is that their predictive output is critically aﬀected by semantic properties of their training data [39, 40].”
A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks (2018, background): “For example, during acquisition, broader categorical distinctions are generally learned before finer-grained distinctions [1, 5], and long periods of relative stasis can be followed by abrupt conceptual reorganization [6, 7].”
The stability and flexibility of spatial categories. (2005, background): “What processes give rise to categories that are both stable and Xexible? In recent years, there has been a shift from viewing categories as static representations with inherent structures (e.g., Mandler, 1993; Mandler & McDonough, 1993; Mervis, 1985) toward viewing them as emergent products of cog”
Infants' use of object parts in early categorization. (1998, background): “A corollary for this assumption is the traditional view that basic-level categories are developmentally prime, although recent research has suggested that the earliest conceptual categories might be global in nature (Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1991; Mandler & McDonough, 1993).”
The future of infant categorization research: a process-oriented approach. (2000, background): “Mandler and McDonough (1993), for example, using small replicas, demonstrated that infants as young as 7 months differentiated animals from vehicles but did”
Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction (1998, methodology): “Thus, for example , using a dishabituation paradigm, Mandler and McDonough (1993) have shown that 9-month-old infants dishabituate to an animal after repeatedly seeing models of a vehicle (and vice versa) even though the dishabituating stimulus may be highly visually similar to the habituated…”
Précis of Semantic Cognition: A Parallel Distributed Processing Approach (2008, background): “…among objects in their world (e.g., Eimas & Quinn 1994; Mareschal 2000), there is now considerable evidence that knowledge about semantic similarity relations is acquired somewhat later and follows a predictable developmental trajectory (e.g., Mandler & McDonough 1993; 1996; Mandler et al. 1991).”