A summary of The foundations of mind: Origins of conceptual thought

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, background): “Children’s property generalizations are guided by conceptual representations that initially are broad in scope (eg, animates, inanimates; Gelman & Opfer, 2002; Poulin-Dubois, Frenkiel-Fishman, Nayer, & Johnson, 2006; Rakison & Poulin-Dubois, 2001), and these concepts become more differentiated over ”
Experience-Based and On-Line Categorization of Objects in Early Infancy (2010, background): “Some investigators contend that infants younger than 1 year of age form categories based on knowledge about causal and functional similarities of objects (Gelman, Durgin, & Kaufman, 1995; Mandler, 2000, 2004; Mandler & McDonough, 1993; McDonough & Mandler, 1998; Van de Walle, 1999).”
A metaphor-enriched social cognition. (2010, background): “Most prominently, theories of scaffolding posit that developmentally early, nonmetaphoric associations between social experiences and interactions with the physical world form the basis for metaphoric conceptions of those experiences later in development (Bargh, 2006; Mandler, 2004; Piaget & Inhelde”