The Origin of Concepts

By Susan Carey. 2000

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The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence (2020, background): “, 2017)) and in our 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).”
What can the brain teach us about building artificial intelligence? (2016, background): “ spatial and temporal vicinity, and to their simplest properties and states. But with language, older children become able to reason about a much wider range of physical and psychological situations (Carey, 2009). Language also provides much more powerful learning-to-learn abilities (Mikolov et al.,”
Learning Physical Intuition of Block Towers by Example (2016, background): “Indeed, the fact that humans develop such physical intuition at an early age (Carey, 2009), well before most other types of high-level reasoning, suggests its importance in comprehending the world.”
Machine Theory of Mind (2018, background): “li et al.,2017), and will thus likely play a key role in human-machine interaction. Exploring the conditions under which such abilities arise can also shed light on the origin of our human abilities (Carey, 2009). Finally, such models will likely be crucial mediators of our human understanding of ar”
Physics 101: Learning Physical Object Properties from Unlabeled Videos (2016, background): “5 months old, infants learn basic physics even before they acquire advanced high-level knowledge like semantic categories of objects [2, 7].”
Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires and percepts in human mentalizing (2017, background): “Mental state inference (or “mentalizing”) in adults likely draws on a diverse set of representations and processes, but our focus is on a capacity that appears in some form in infancy [36, 53, 8, 17, 28, 6] and persists as a richer theory of mind develops through the first years of life [52, 51].”
Theories of cognitive development: From Piaget to today (2015, background): “…thesis that a non-verbal approximate number system is the source of children’s and adults’ understanding of both the small and large values of numbers is pitted against the popular thesis of the existence of different mechanisms for the two types of magnitudes (Carey, 2009; Feigenson et al., 2004).”
Representing, Running, and Revising Mental Models: A Computational Model (2018, background): “Incrementality is an important property, since human conceptual change is a prolonged process (Carey, 2009; Gentner et al., 1997).”
Maybe they’re born with it, or maybe it’s experience: Toward a deeper understanding of the learning style myth. (2020, background): “…for people to accept that learning styles are ineffective if that also entails revising a host of strong beliefs about how they are instantiated in the brain, influence learning outcomes, and mark distinct kinds of people (for a similar proposal about revising entrenched theories, see Carey, 2009).”
Informative tools for characterizing individual differences in learning: Latent class, latent profile, and latent transition analysis (2017, background): “…pathways are often discontinuous or non-linear: Learning can take place in stages, learning pathways can vary substantially between learners, and learning can interact with learner abilities and characteristics (e.g., Carey, 2009; Meiser, Stern, & Langeheine, 1998; Van der Maas & Molenaar, 1992).”
Intuitive Theories (2020, background): “The basic idea is that people possess intuitive theories of different domains, such as physics, psychology, and biology, that are in some way analogous to scientific theories (Carey, 2009; Wellman & Gelman, 1992).”
Science Is Awe-Some: The Emotional Antecedents of Science Learning (2017, background): “The former is synonymous with assimilation, whereas the latter is synonymous with accommodation (Carey, 2009).”
Concepts in a Probabilistic Language of Thought (2014, background): “Intuitive theories can be found in some form in young infants, and are also to some extent shared with many other species; they are arguably the earliest and oldest abstract concepts we have (Carey, 2009).”
RATIONAL NUMBER AND PROPORTIONAL REASONING: USING INTENSIVE QUANTITIES TO PROMOTE ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (2011, background): “In the USA, performance on the decimals and fractions component of the Scholastic Aptitude Test is consistently below the overall average (Carey, 2009).”