The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments.

By Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff. 1987

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Learning with Latent Language (2017, background): “For example, the fact that it is easy for humans to communicate the concept left of the circle but comparatively difficult to communicate mean saturation of the first five pixels in the third column reveals something about the abstractions we find useful for interpreting and navigating our environme”
The Theory Theory as an Alternative to the Innateness Hypothesis (2008, background): “We have shown that the acquisition of early words is, empirically, closely related to the child's developing theoretical understanding of actions, appearances and kinds (Gopnik, 1984;Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1987, 1986).”
Predicting the birth of a spoken word (2015, background): “” Some have suggested this vocabulary spurt is a byproduct of a new insight children gain about categories (38), and others suggest that it is a mathematical consequence of the”
Watching the Infant Brain Learn Words: Effects of Vocabulary Size and Experience. (2005, background): “…rapid linguistic development observed during the second year, such as the occurrence of a naming insight (McShane, 1979), changes in categorization abilities (Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1987), object permanence skills (Corrigan, 1978), and the emergence of speech segmentation abilities (Plunkett, 1993).”
Educational Effects of a Vocabulary Intervention on Preschoolers' Word Knowledge and Conceptual Development: A Cluster‐Randomized Trial (2011, result): “The results were consistent with previous research by Gopnik and Meltzoff (1987), who have argued for the bidirectional interaction of categorization as a tool for learning language.”
Infants' use of object parts in early categorization. (1998, background): “Although admittedly speculative, these explanations cannot be eliminated for the existing data that point to only a correlation between vocabulary growth and categorization and not to a causal agent among them (e.g., Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1987, 1992).”
How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory (2002, background): “Specifying the relations between broad constructs such as EF and ToM is critical to advancing meaningful theories of development (cf. Gopnik and Meltzoff, 1987).”
Before and after the vocabulary spurt: two modes of word acquisition? (2003, unknown): “Importantly, it has been described as the ultimate development of perceptual categorization, the moment when infants realize that every object belongs to a category (Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1987, 1992; Mervis & Bertrand, 1994).”
TouchStat: A Monte Carlo program for calculating sequential touching probabilities (1998, background): “The objects are often three-dimensional geometric figures (see, e.g., Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1987, 1992; Ricciuti, 1965; Sugar man, 1983) or three-dimensional toy replicas ofreal-world objects (see, e.g., Mandler & Bauer, 1988; Mandler et al., 1987; Shore et al., 1995), and often differ from each other…”