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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Modelling the transition from perceptual to conceptual organization
AU - Westermann, Gert
AU - Mareschal, Denis
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - We present a neural network model of the transition from early, perceptually-based category formation to conceptual categorization based on the learning of category labels. The model investigates the interactions between category structure and labelling success in terms of category compactness, between-category similarity, frequency of labelling and prelinguistic object knowledge. By providing accounts both of the effect of category structure on word learning and of word learning on category structure the model presents the first step of a unified account of category and word learning.
AB - We present a neural network model of the transition from early, perceptually-based category formation to conceptual categorization based on the learning of category labels. The model investigates the interactions between category structure and labelling success in terms of category compactness, between-category similarity, frequency of labelling and prelinguistic object knowledge. By providing accounts both of the effect of category structure on word learning and of word learning on category structure the model presents the first step of a unified account of category and word learning.
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KW - EARLY INFANCY
KW - CATEGORIZATION
KW - MECHANISMS
KW - LANGUAGE
KW - WORDS
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9789812834225
SP - 153
EP - 164
BT - Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition II
A2 - Mayor, J
A2 - Ruh, N
A2 - Plunkett, K
PB - WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
CY - SINGAPORE
ER -