The Development and Nature of the Processes that Underlie the Representation of Center-embedded, Recursive Structures
中心嵌入递归结构表示过程的发展和本质
基本信息
- 批准号:9907035
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 6.12万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:
- 财政年份:2019
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2019-09-24 至 2022-09-23
- 项目状态:已结题
- 来源:
- 关键词:5 year old6 year oldAdultAgeBase PairingCanis familiarisChildChildhoodCognitionCognitiveComplexCuesDataDevelopmentElementsEnvironmentFelis catusFellowshipFoundationsFutureGoalsHumanImageIndividualInterventionLaboratoriesLanguageLanguage DisordersLearningLightMathematicsMethodsMindMonkeysMusicNatureParticipantPerformancePositioning AttributeProceduresProcessReaction TimeRecording of previous eventsResearchRewardsSeriesShapesSpecific qualifier valueStimulusStructureTestingTouch sensationTrainingWorkclassical conditioningcognitive developmentcomparativedevelopmental diseasedevelopmental psychologyexpectationinsightnovelphrasesspecific language impairmentsuccesssyntaxtheoriestooltraining opportunity
项目摘要
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The ability to represent recursive structures, or those which allow elements to be embedded within elements of
the same kind (e.g. “[ { } ]”), is thought to be a critical feature of human syntax and has been implicated in the
development of a number of human capacities, such as language and mathematics. However, it is currently
unknown what processes are used to represent recursive structures, or when the ability to represent recursive
structures develops in young children. The overall goals of the proposed studies are to trace the
developmental trajectory of the ability to represent recursive structures in children, to rule out deflationary
accounts for previous successes, and to determine the type of mechanism used to represent recursive
structures. The proposed studies will use a non-linguistic sequencing task to test whether children of different
ages (3- to 6-years-old) and adults can represent abstract recursive sequences and generate new, untrained
instances of these structures. Subjects will be trained to touch a series of images in a center-embedded,
recursive order and then will be tested on their ability to generalize this to untrained lists. Additionally, the
proposed studies will control for associative learning mechanisms that previous studies have failed to account
for. Lastly, to test the nature of children’s and adults’ representations of complex, recursive structures,
children’s and adults’ ability to learn and generate new instances of different types of structures (center-
embedded & cross-serial dependent) will be tested. Different proposed mechanisms for representing recursive
structures as well as other structured sequences (stacks and queues) make different predictions about which
should be easier and faster to generate. Understanding how children and adults perform on these tasks will
shed light on the underlying mechanisms used to generate recursive sequences. These findings will not only
provide novel insight into the development of an essential component of human thought, it will provide a
foundation for future efforts to understand the underlying cognitive components of language deficits such as
those seen in Specific Language Impairment. As the applicant’s previous research has been focused on
comparative cognition, the proposed fellowship training plan is targeted at providing a training opportunity to
learn developmental psychology methods in an ideal environment, the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental
Studies.
项目摘要/摘要
表示递归结构的能力,或允许将元素嵌入
同样的类型(例如“[{}]”),被认为是人类句法的一个关键特征,并被牵连到
发展一些人的能力,如语言和数学。不过,目前
未知使用什么进程来表示递归结构,或者何时能够表示递归结构
结构在幼儿时期就开始发育。拟议研究的总体目标是追踪
儿童表现递归结构能力的发展轨迹,以排除通货紧缩
解释以前的成功,并确定用于表示递归的机制类型
结构。这项拟议的研究将使用非语言排序任务来测试不同性别的儿童
年龄(3至6岁)和成年人可以表示抽象的递归序列,并生成新的、未经训练的
这些结构的实例。受试者将接受训练,触摸嵌入中心的一系列图像,
递归排序,然后将测试他们将其推广到未经训练的列表的能力。此外,
拟议的研究将控制联想学习机制,而以前的研究未能说明这一点
为。最后,为了测试儿童和成人对复杂递归结构的表征的性质,
儿童和成人学习和生成不同类型结构的新实例的能力(中心-
嵌入式和跨系列依赖)将进行测试。表示递归的不同建议机制
结构以及其他结构化序列(堆栈和队列)对哪个做出不同的预测
应该更容易和更快地生成。了解儿童和成年人在这些任务中的表现将
阐明了用于生成递归序列的底层机制。这些发现不仅将
为人类思维的一个基本组成部分的发展提供了新的见解,它将提供
为未来努力理解语言缺陷的潜在认知成分奠定基础,如
那些出现在特定语言障碍中的。由于申请者之前的研究主要集中在
比较认知,拟议的奖学金培训计划旨在为以下人员提供培训机会
在理想的环境中学习发展心理学方法,哈佛发展实验室
研究。
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The Development and Nature of the Processes that Underlie the Representation of Center-embedded, Recursive Structures
中心嵌入递归结构表示过程的发展和本质
- 批准号:
10251327 - 财政年份:2019
- 资助金额:
$ 6.12万 - 项目类别:
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