The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics: A synthetic review

IF 5.7 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Layla Unger , Anna V. Fisher
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Abstract

As adults, we draw upon our ample knowledge about the world to support such vital cognitive feats as using language, reasoning, retrieving knowledge relevant to our current goals, planning for the future, adapting to unexpected events, and navigating through the environment. Our knowledge readily supports these feats because it is not merely a collection of stored facts, but rather functions as an organized, semantic network of concepts connected by meaningful relations. How do the relations that fundamentally organize semantic concepts emerge with development? Here, we cast a spotlight on a potentially powerful but often overlooked driver of semantic organization: Rich statistical regularities that are ubiquitous in both language and visual input. In this synthetic review, we show that a driving role for statistical regularities is convergently supported by evidence from diverse fields, including computational modeling, statistical learning, and semantic development. Finally, we identify a number of key avenues of future research into how statistical regularities may drive the development of semantic organization.

从简单统计中产生的有组织的语义知识:综合综述
作为成年人,我们利用对世界的丰富知识来支持一些重要的认知技能,如使用语言、推理、检索与我们当前目标相关的知识、规划未来、适应意外事件以及在环境中导航。我们的知识很容易支持这些壮举,因为它不仅仅是存储事实的集合,而是一个有组织的、由有意义的关系连接起来的概念语义网络。从根本上组织语义概念的关系是如何随着发展而出现的?在这里,我们聚焦于语义组织的潜在强大但经常被忽视的驱动因素:丰富的统计规律,在语言和视觉输入中无处不在。在这篇综合综述中,我们表明统计规律的驱动作用得到了来自不同领域的证据的支持,包括计算建模、统计学习和语义发展。最后,我们确定了未来研究统计规律如何推动语义组织发展的一些关键途径。
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Developmental Review
Developmental Review PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
CiteScore
11.00
自引率
3.00%
发文量
27
审稿时长
51 days
期刊介绍: Presenting research that bears on important conceptual issues in developmental psychology, Developmental Review: Perspectives in Behavior and Cognition provides child and developmental, child clinical, and educational psychologists with authoritative articles that reflect current thinking and cover significant scientific developments. The journal emphasizes human developmental processes and gives particular attention to issues relevant to child developmental psychology. The research concerns issues with important implications for the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, and education, and increases the understanding of socialization processes.
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