{"pk":26601,"title":"Modeling the Influence of Knowledge on Recognition: Connecting visualrecognition behavior across development to PDP computational models ofsemantic knowledge","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Recent behavioral findings in children’s selection of a “real” versus “silly” animal demonstrated a developmentalchange wherein younger children select chimeric animals with regular forms (e.g., a seal with four legs, a camel with no hump)as real. To reduce verbal demands while maintaining the same stimuli, we developed a touch screen change-detection task inwhich children (4 – 7-years-old) were instructed to locate a single changing feature (e.g., a rhinoceros with and without a horn)as fast as possible. Children were faster to find changes when the feature appeared on animals with more prototypic animalforms (e.g., a donkey with and without a hump) when compared to animals with atypical forms (e.g., a camel with and withouta hump). Alongside exploration via computational models, these findings suggest that children’s real-world object recognitionis supported by the interplay of semantic knowledge, informed by covariation among visual features, and visual recognition.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tv9w051","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Clint","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jensen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Vanessa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Simmering","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Timothy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rogers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin - Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26601/galley/16237/download/"}]}