CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND CATEGORIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT

描述(改编自申请者摘要)：当情况良好时 有记录表明自闭症儿童的语言能力受损 发展，对它们的分类研究几乎没有显示出 减损。然而，这样的研究只关注儿童的 使用对象的感知特征进行分类，而不考虑什么 因果关系在概念发展中扮演着重要角色。这一项目旨在 研究正常儿童和正常儿童的概念和语言发展 自闭症儿童，关注他们对世界的因果理解。 此外，概念的发展通常与以下方面有关 语言发展。理解分类是可能的 使用宾语的因果特征在语言学上与提供 关于世界的因果解释。24个月以下的儿童 和6岁将被给予分类任务使用因果和 感性的暗示。他们还将被赋予叙事任务，旨在 引出关于这个世界的解释。某些年龄段的自闭症儿童 也将接受测试。通过这种方式，我们可以发现，如果语言和 概念发展是相互关联的，它们可能在其中发挥什么作用 诊断和治疗。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Applicant's Abstract): While it is well documented that children with autism are impaired in their language development, research on their categorization has shown little to no impairment. However, such research has focused only on children's categorization using perceptual features of objects and not considered what role causality plays in conceptual development. This project seeks to examine conceptual and language development in both normal children and children with autism, focusing on their causal understanding of the world. Furthermore, conceptual development has usually been related to aspects of language development. It is possible that understanding categorization using causal features of objects is related linguistically to providing causal explanations about the world. Children between the ages of 24 months and 6 years will be given categorization tasks that use causal and perceptual cues. They will also be given narrative tasks, designed to elicit explanations about the world. Children with autism of certain ages will also be tested. In this way, we can discover if the linguistic and conceptual developments are linked and what role they might play in diagnosis and treatment.