Early Category and Concept Development : Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion

Foreword: Categories, Cognitive Development, and Cognitive Science, Frank C. Keil
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
1. Issues in the Early Development of Concepts and Categories: An Introduction, Lisa M. Oakes and David H. Rakison
PART I. CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES BEFORE THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE
2. Chunking Language Input to Find Patterns, Peter W. Jusczyk
3. Concepts Are Not Just for Objects: Categorization of Spatial Relation Information by Infants, Paul C. Quinn
4. Parsing Objects into Categories: Infants' Perception and Use of Correlated Attributes, Barbara A. Younger
5. Conceptual Categorization, Jean M. Mandler
6. Principles of Developmental Change in Infants' Category Formation, Lisa M. Oakes and Kelly L. Madole
7. Parts, Motion, and the Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Infancy, David H. Rakison
8. Commentary on Part I: Unresolved Issues in Infant Categorization, Leslie B. Cohen
PART II: CONCEPTS AND CATEGORIES DURING EARLY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
9. Links between Object Categorization and Naming: Origins and Emergence in Human Infants, Sandra R. Waxman
10. Transaction of Child Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities and Adult Input in the Acquisition of Lexical Categories at the Basic and Subordinate Levels, Carolyn B. Mervis, John R. Pani, and Ariel M. Pani
11. Making an Ontology: Cross-linguistic Evidence, Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Hanako Yoshida
12. Words, Kinds, and Causal Powers: A Theory Theory Perspective on Early Naming and Categorization, Alison Gopnik and Thierry Nazzi
13. Theory-Based Categorization in Early Childhood, Susan A. Gelman and Melissa A. Koenig
14. The Acquisition and Use of Implicit Categories in Early Development, Denis Mareschal
15. Commentary on Part II: Abilities and Assumptions Underlying Conceptual Development, Ellen M. Markman and Vikram K. Jaswal
16. Final Commentary: Conceptual Development from Origins to Asymptotes, Robert L. Goldstone and Mark K. Johansen
Author Index
Subject Index

Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent PSY006000