How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives.

By Jean M. Mandler. 1992

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “recent book (Marcus & Davis, 2019); a host of other developmental psychologists have pointed in similar directions over the years (Landau, Gleitman, & Landau, 2009; Carey, 2009; Leslie, 1982; Mandler, 1992). As Spelke and Kant both emphasized, once you know about objects and how they travel ”
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, methodology): “One key characteristic of acquiring knowledge in a domain is the ability to make finer differentiations among initially broad conceptions (E. J. Gibson, 1969; Keil, 1989; Mandler, 1992).”
Flexible Conceptual Projection of Time Onto Spatial Frames of Reference (2006, background): “all abstract concepts are built on the foundation of a set of basic image schemas, which are acquired through universal patterns of bodily interactions with the world (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999; Mandler, 1992 ).”
Rethinking infant knowledge: toward an adaptive process account of successes and failures in object permanence tasks. (1997, background): “In the arguments presented here, we focus on a more implicit object permanence understanding that we believe develops primarily prior to and as support for later, more explicit understanding (for relevant discussion, see Karmiloff-Smith, 1992; Mandler, 1992).”
Perceived physical and social causality in animated motions: spontaneous reports and ratings. (2006, background): “Researchers trying to understand infants’ earliest ontological distinctions argue that perceptual causality could help infants learn about the causal structure of the world without requiring causal knowledge (e.g., Baron-Cohen, 1994; Leslie, 1988; Mandler, 1992; Premack, 1990).”
Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Infancy (2000, methodology): “I have proposed an alternative way of deriving concepts from perceptual data (Mandler, 1992).”
On the Birth and Growth of Concepts (2008, background): “However, as discussed below, feelings of force may not need to be analyzed to get linked up with a spatial MOTION TRANSFER primitive.”
A Probabilistic Computational Model of Cross-Situational Word Learning (2010, background): “In addition, we assume that by the time children start to learn word meanings, they can form conceptual representations from the perceived scenes (Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, Mervis, Frawley, & Parillo, 1995; Mandler, 1992).”
Infant Categorization of Faces: Ladies First. (2005, unknown): “Given the importance of categorization, it is not surprising that even young infants demonstrate this ability (e.g., Eimas, 1994; Mandler, 1992; Mervis & Rosch, 1981; Quinn & Eimas, 1987, 1996).”
Infants' use of object parts in early categorization. (1998, methodology): “Mandler (1992) noted that 1- to 2-year-olds who were engaged in playing with animal and vehicle exemplars tended to move or roll vehicles in a straight line, whereas they tended to " h o p " or " b o u n c e " animals.”
Improvements in Object Exploration Skills May Facilitate the Development of Object Segregation in Early Infancy (2000, background): “Although many researchers studying infant development probably believe in the importance of observational learning (e.g., Baillargeon, 1994, 1999; Mandler, 1992, 1998), it is possible that infants could learn things about objects through their own explorations that either are not easily learned by…”
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems. (2003, background): “Selective attention is also central in other modality-specific approaches to knowledge [ 6 ,50,51].”
Occlusion is hard: Comparing predictive reaching for visible and hidden objects in infants and adults (2009, background): “This research has charted the developmental time course of a variety of central aspects of object perception, including figure-ground organization (Termine, Hrynick, Kestenbaum, Gleitman, & Spelke, 1987), object and face discrimination (Bushnell, Sai, & Mullin, 1989), size and shape constancy (Slate”