Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood Learning from Multiple Exemplars /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Childers, Jane B. (Editor)
Summary:XV, 259 p. 32 illus., 22 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35594-4
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Mechanisms of statistical learning in infancy
  • Chapter 3: How multiple exemplars matter for infant spatial categorization
  • Chapter 4: How the demands of a variable environment give rise to statistical learning
  • Chapter 5: Structure-mapping processes enable infants’ learning across domains, including language
  • Chapter 6: The emergence of inductive reasoning during infancy: Learning from single and multiple exemplars
  • Chapter 7: Learning individual verbs and the verb system: When are multiple examples helpful?
  • Chapter 8: Multiple examples support children’s word learning: The roles of aggregation, decontextualization and memory dynamics
  • Chapter 9: Mechanisms for evaluating others’ reliability when learning novel words
  • Chapter 10: The search for invariance: Repeated positive testing serves the goals of causal learning in exploration and experimentation
  • Chapter 11: Multiple exemplars of relations
  • Chapter 12: Epilogue: Comparing comparison theories: What can we gain?. .