New Approaches to Infant Learning and Cognition

婴儿学习和认知的新方法

• 批准号: 6888452
• 负责人: AMY E NEEDHAM
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-12-01 至 2005-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6888452
• 关键词: child psychology; clinical research; cognition; developmental psychology; infant human (0-1 year); learning; meeting /conference /symposium; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers from diverse areas in the study of infant learning and infant cognition in order to move toward a more general understanding of the role of learning in infant cognitive development. Much of recent work on infant cognition has focused on what infants seem to know at different points in development, but has spent less time investigating questions of how this knowledge develops. Recent work on infant learning across a number of domains offers a vantage point from which to address this gap, and thereby address a number of unresolved issues concerning the nature of the infant mind, including the underlying mechanisms of learning and the creation of conceptual structures. Leading researchers in the following areas of study will be invited to participate in this conference: Learning about Objects and Actions, Language Learning, Category Learning, Social Learning, and Processes Supporting Learning. A group of about ten high-profile younger researchers will be invited to give talks featuring how learning and cognition come together in their own work. These talks will be discussed and synthesized by a group of five senior discussants. The objectives are to provide all of the participants with examples of connections between learning cognition that they can then apply to their own research. A new synthesis of infant cognition that focuses on learning will push the field past the outdated notions of "nativism or nothing" that currently pervade researchers' thinking about the origins of cognition.

描述（由申请人提供）：这次会议的总体目标是将来自不同领域的研究人员汇集到婴儿学习和婴儿认知研究中，以便对学习在婴儿认知发展中的作用进行更一般的了解。关于婴儿认知的最新工作都集中在婴儿在发展中似乎知道的知识，但花费了更少的时间来研究这种知识如何发展的问题。跨许多领域的婴儿学习的最新工作为解决这一差距提供了一个有利的位置，从而解决了有关婴儿思想性质的许多未解决的问题，包括学习的基本机制和概念结构的创造。 将邀请以下研究领域的主要研究人员参加这次会议：学习对象和动作，语言学习，类别学习，社交学习和支持学习的过程。将邀请大约十名备受瞩目的年轻研究人员组成的小组，以学习和认知如何在自己的工作中融合在一起。这些谈话将由五名高级讨论者组成的小组讨论和综合。这些目标是为所有参与者提供学习认知之间的联系的例子，即他们可以将其应用于自己的研究。针对学习的婴儿认知的新综合将推动该领域超越目前遍布研究人员对认知起源的思考的“本地主义或无所事事”的概念。