CAUSAL EXPLANATION AND CATEGORIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：虽然它是良好的， 证明自闭症儿童的语言能力受损 关于其分类的研究表明， 损伤 然而，这种研究只集中在儿童的 使用对象的感知特征进行分类，而不考虑 因果关系在概念发展中的作用。 本项目谋求 检查正常儿童的概念和语言发展， 自闭症儿童，专注于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 有可能理解分类 使用对象的因果特征在语言学上与提供 对世界的因果解释。 24个月以下的儿童 和6年将给予分类任务，使用因果关系和 知觉线索 他们还将被赋予叙事任务，旨在 引出对世界的解释。 特定年龄段的自闭症儿童 也将受到考验。 通过这种方式，我们可以发现， 概念的发展是相互联系的，它们可能发挥什么作用， 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.