A unified account of abstract structure and conceptual change: Probabilistic models and early learning mechanisms

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (3):129-130 (2011)
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We need not propose, as Carey does, a radical discontinuity between core cognition, which is responsible for abstract structure, and language and which are responsible for learning and conceptual change. From a probabilistic models view, conceptual structure and learning reflect the same principles, and they are both in place from the beginning

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The origin of concepts.Susan Carey - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Word learning as Bayesian inference.Fei Xu & Joshua B. Tenenbaum - 2007 - Psychological Review 114 (2):245-272.

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