A connectionist account of asymmetric category learning in early infancy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9788248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denis Mareschal (0000-0002-9828-9548, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author), Robert French (0000-0002-9064-9721), Robert Mills French, Paul C Quinn (0000-0002-3816-3847) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 635-645 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.36.5.635 |
| PMID | 10976603 |
| OpenAlex | W1965870257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 29 |
Young infants show unexplained asymmetries in the exclusivity of categories formed on the basis of visually presented stimuli. A connectionist model is described that shows similar exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing the same stimuli presented to infants. The asymmetries can be explained in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and the statistics of the feature distributions in the stimuli. The model was used to explore the robustness of this asymmetry. The model predicts that the asymmetry will persist when a category is acquired in the presence of mixed category exemplars. An experiment with 3-4-month-olds showed that asymmetric exclusivity persisted in the presence of mixed-exemplar familiarization, thereby confirming the model's prediction
Associative learning · Associative property · Asymmetry · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Concept learning · Connectionism · Developmental psychology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Neuroscience · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |