Rethinking how children individuate objects: spatial indexicals in early development
Rethinking how children individuate objects: spatial indexicals in early development
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DOI：
10.1007/s11229-023-04300-5
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发表时间：
2023-08-24
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1.5
通讯作者：
Moore，Richard
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作者：
Hildebrandt，Frauke;Glauer，Ramiro;Moore，Richard
目前对认知发展的理解是建立在婴儿能够在早期个体化物体的前提下的，然而，所谓的物体优先解释面临着严重的困难，而替代的，更简约的解释是可用的，在对象个体化任务中解释现存的实证研究结果。在本文中，我们假设，儿童开始作为功能思想家没有能够个性化的对象，并显示这种能力可以学习的思想家谁不已经隐含地拥有一个对象的概念。基于Tugendhat的想法之间的关系的奇异条款和对象的参考，我们认为，空间索引包括对象个性化的基本手段，并描述了如何功能思想家可能获得的复杂的替代系统的空间索引。最后，两个帐户的对象认知，不依赖于符号的能力，即Pylyshyn的FINST指数和伯奇的知觉客观性，进行了批判性的讨论。
The current understanding of cognitive development rests on the premise that infants can individuate objects early on. However, the so-called object-first account faces severe difficulties explaining extant empirical findings in object individuation tasks while alternative, more parsimonious explanations are available. In this paper, we assume that children start as feature-thinkers without being able to individuate objects and show how this ability can be learned by thinkers who do not already implicitly possess the notion of an object. Based on Tugendhat's ideas on the relation between singular terms and object reference, we argue that spatial indexicals comprise the fundamental means of object individuation and describe how feature thinkers might acquire the complex substitutional system of spatial indexicals. In closing, two accounts of object cognition that do not rely on symbolic capacities, namely Pylyshyn's FINST indexes and Burge's perceptual objectivity, are critically discussed.