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Concept Formation (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Concept Formation'
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29 Apr 2009 
Over the past few decades, there has been an increasing interest in the measurement of hospital efficiency in developing countries and in Iran. While the choice of measurement methods in hospital efficiency assessment has been widely argued in the ...
rec_pub_19401501-a-conceptual-framework-selecting-appropriate-variables-measuring.htm
29 Apr 2009 Three experiments modeled after infant studies were run on four great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus, Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus) to investigate their reasoning about solidity and gravity constraints. The aims were: (a) to find out ...
rec_pub_19450024-gravity-solidity-four-great-ape-species-gorilla-gorilla-pongo.htm
Choking and excelling under pressure in experienced classifiers.
29 Apr 2009 
We extend previous work examining the effects of pressure on category learning to the effects of pressure on categorization performance in highly trained individuals. After extensive training on either a rule-based or an information-integration ...
rec_pub_19429969-choking-excelling-pressure-experienced-classifiers.htm
29 Apr 2009 
rec_pub_19585832-dementia.htm
29 Apr 2009 We investigated and compared the acquisition of haptic concepts by the blind with the acquisition of haptic concepts by sighted controls. Each subject--blind, sighted but blindfolded, sighted and touching, and sighted only--initially classified ...
rec_pub_19429952-haptic-concepts-blind.htm
Preschoolers infer ownership from "control of permission".
29 Apr 2009 Owners control permission-they forbid and permit others to use their property. So it is reasonable to assume that someone controlling permission over an object is its owner. The authors tested whether preschoolers infer ownership in this way. In the ...
rec_pub_19413438-preschoolers-infer-ownership-control-permission.htm
Goal directedness and decision making in infants.
29 Apr 2009 The term goal directed conventionally refers to either of 2 separate process types-motor processes organizing action oriented toward physical targets and decision-making processes that select these targets by integrating desire for and knowledge of ...
rec_pub_19413433-goal-directedness-decision-making-infants.htm
Generic language and speaker confidence guide preschoolers' inferences about novel animate kinds.
29 Apr 2009 We investigated the influence of speaker certainty on 156 four-year-old children's sensitivity to generic and nongeneric statements. An inductive inference task was implemented, in which a speaker described a nonobvious property of a novel creature ...
rec_pub_19413440-generic-language-speaker-confidence-guide-preschoolers-inferences.htm
Early math matters: kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes.
29 Apr 2009 Children's number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 later time points, from the end of 1st grade to the end of 3rd grade. ...
rec_pub_19413436-early-math-matters-kindergarten-number-competence-later-mathematics.htm
Pseudoneglect for the bisection of mental number lines.
29 Apr 2009 Patients with unilateral neglect of the left side bisect physical lines to the right whereas individuals with an intact brain bisect lines slightly to the left (pseudoneglect). Similarly, for mental number lines, which are arranged in a ...
rec_pub_18780193-pseudoneglect-bisection-mental-number-lines.htm
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