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COGSCI
2010
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Beyond Core Knowledge: Natural Geometry
For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane,...
Elizabeth S. Spelke, Sang Ah Lee, Véronique...
COGSCI
2010
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Network Structure Influences Speech Production
Network science provides a new way to look at old questions in cognitive science by examining the structure of a complex system, and how that structure might influence processing....
Kit Ying Chan, Michael S. Vitevitch
COGSCI
2010
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The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
COGSCI
2010
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Five Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module
It is frequently claimed that the human mind is organized in a modular fashion, a hypothesis linked historically, though not inevitably, to the claim that many aspects of the huma...
Alexandra D. Twyman, Nora S. Newcombe
COGSCI
2010
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Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning
Learning depends on attention. The processes that cue attention in the moment dynamically integrate learned regularities and immediate contextual cues. This paper reviews the exte...
Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, Hanako Yoshida
COGSCI
2010
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The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning
Symbols enable people to organize and communicate about the world. However, the ways in which symbolic knowledge is learned and then represented in the mind are poorly understood....
Michael Ramscar, Daniel Yarlett, Melody Dye, Katie...
COGSCI
2010
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Space and Time in the Child's Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry
What is the relationship between space and time in the human mind? Studies in adults show an asymmetric relationship between mental representations of these basic dimensions of ex...
Daniel Casasanto, Olga Fotakopoulou, Lera Borodits...