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Quinlan, Philip T.; van der Maas, Han L. J.; Jansen, Brenda R. J.; Booij, Olaf; Rendell, Mark – Cognition, 2007
The present paper re-appraises connectionist attempts to explain how human cognitive development appears to progress through a series of sequential stages. Models of performance on the Piagetian balance scale task are the focus of attention. Limitations of these models are discussed and replications and extensions to the work are provided via the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Models
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Stadthagen-Gonzalez, Hans; Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Damian, Markus F. – Cognition, 2004
Three experiments assessed the contributions of age-of-acquisition (AoA) and frequency to visual word recognition. Three databases were created from electronic journals in chemistry, psychology and geology in order to identify technical words that are extremely frequent in each discipline but acquired late in life. In Experiment 1, psychologists…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Experiments, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development