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Direct linkSilvey, Catriona; Kirby, Simon; Smith, Kenny – Cognitive Science, 2015
Words refer to objects in the world, but this correspondence is not one-to-one: Each word has a range of referents that share features on some dimensions but differ on others. This property of language is called underspecification. Parts of the lexicon have characteristic patterns of underspecification; for example, artifact nouns tend to specify…
Descriptors: Definitions, Learning, Language Usage, Diachronic Linguistics
Van de Vondervoort, Julia W.; Friedman, Ori – Cognitive Science, 2015
Understanding ownership rights is necessary for socially appropriate behavior. We provide evidence that preschoolers' and adults' judgments of ownership rights are related to their judgments of bodily rights. Four-year-olds (n = 70) and adults (n = 89) evaluated the acceptability of harmless actions targeting owned property and body…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Ownership, Adult Basic Education, Human Body
Morlino, Giuseppe; Gianelli, Claudia; Borghi, Anna M.; Nolfi, Stefano – Cognitive Science, 2015
This study investigates the acquisition of integrated object manipulation and categorization abilities through a series of experiments in which human adults and artificial agents were asked to learn to manipulate two-dimensional objects that varied in shape, color, weight, and color intensity. The analysis of the obtained results and the…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Classification, Adults, Behavior
Morris, Bradley J.; Masnick, Amy M. – Cognitive Science, 2015
Comparing datasets, that is, sets of numbers in context, is a critical skill in higher order cognition. Although much is known about how people compare single numbers, little is known about how number sets are represented and compared. We investigated how subjects compared datasets that varied in their statistical properties, including ratio of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Number Concepts, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
Beer, Randall D.; Williams, Paul L. – Cognitive Science, 2015
There has been considerable debate in the literature about the relative merits of information processing versus dynamical approaches to understanding cognitive processes. In this article, we explore the relationship between these two styles of explanation using a model agent evolved to solve a relational categorization task. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Classification, Task Analysis, Systems Approach
Tamariz, Mónica; Kirby, Simon – Cognitive Science, 2015
Through cultural transmission, repeated learning by new individuals transforms cultural information, which tends to become increasingly compressible (Kirby, Cornish, & Smith, 2008; Smith, Tamariz, & Kirby, 2013). Existing diffusion chain studies include in their design two processes that could be responsible for this tendency: learning…
Descriptors: Culture, Learning, Duplication, Freehand Drawing
