From Perceptual Categories to Concepts: What Develops?
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From Perceptual Categories to Concepts: What Develops?
People are remarkably smart: they use language, possess complex motor skills, make non-trivial inferences, develop and use scientific theories, make laws, and adapt to complex dynamic environments. Much of this knowledge requires concepts and this paper focuses on how people acquire concepts. It is argued that conceptual development progresses from simple perceptual grouping to highly abstract ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01129.x