{"pk":32056,"title":"The Emergence of Perceptual Category Representations During Early Development: A Connectionist Analysis","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A number of recent studies on early categorization suggest that young infants form category representations for stimuli at both global and basic levels of exclusiveness (i.e., mammal, cat). A set of computational models designed to analyze the factors responsible for the emergence of these representations are presented. The models (1) simulated the formation of global-level and basic-level representations, (2) yielded a global-to-basic order of category emergence and (3) revealed the formation of two distinct global-level representations - an initial \"self-organizing' perceptual global level and a subsequently \"trained\" arbitrary (i.e., non-perceptual) global level. Information from the models is used to make a number of testable predictions concerning category development in infants.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vs785d9","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Quinn","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, Washington & Jefferson College","department":""},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Johnson","name_suffix":"","institution":"MRC Cognitive Devlopment Unit","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1996-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32056/galley/23121/download/"}]}