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Previous research on children’s categorizations has suggested that children use perceptual and conceptual knowledge to generalize object names. In particular, the relation between ontological categories and linguistic categories appears to be a critical cue to learning object categories. However, the mechanism underlying this relation remains unclear. Here we propose a connectionist model for the acquisition of ontological knowledge by learning linguistic categories of entities. The results suggest that linguistic cues help children attend to specific perceptual properties.
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Hidaka, S., Saiki, J. (2004). A Connectionist Account of Ontological Boundary Shifting. In: Pal, N.R., Kasabov, N., Mudi, R.K., Pal, S., Parui, S.K. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30499-9_42
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