Abstract Thinking in Space and Time: Using The Environment to Learn Words.

Q4 Psychology
Larissa K Samuelson
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A substantial body of work has examined the gestures children and adults make when they talk and found them to be a revealing window on the processes of cognitive change. In her paper, Susan Wagner Cook (this volume) reviews this work along with her own recent work examining the gestures children and adults produce when they talk about math. She argues that the combined data point to a new view of our mathematical knowledge as embodied. Here I comment on Cook's arguments, highlighting how this view of math as embodied offers new insights for our understanding of classic developmental themes, in particular, the continuity versus discontinuity dichotomy. In addition, I present a brief summary of recent work on how children use their bodies in another realm typically thought of as abstract-understanding referential intent. I present an embodied account of how children disambiguate speaker intent in novel naming situations and argue that, as in the case of embodied math, an embodied view of cognition can help elucidate developmental mechanism.

时空中的抽象思维:利用环境学习词汇。
大量的研究工作研究了儿童和成人说话时的手势,发现它们是认知变化过程的一个揭示窗口。苏珊·瓦格纳·库克(Susan Wagner Cook)在她的论文(本卷)中回顾了这一研究成果,并对儿童和成人在谈论数学时所做的手势进行了研究。她认为,这些综合数据为我们的数学知识提供了一种新的视角。在这里,我对库克的观点进行了评论,强调了这种体现数学的观点如何为我们理解经典的发展主题提供了新的见解,特别是连续性与非连续性的二分法。此外,我还简要总结了最近关于儿童如何在另一个通常被认为是抽象理解的领域中使用他们的身体的研究——参照意图。我提出了儿童如何在新奇的命名情况下消除说话人意图歧义的具体说明,并认为,就像在具体数学的情况下一样,认知的具体观点可以帮助阐明发展机制。
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Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal
Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal Psychology-Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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期刊介绍: Cognition, Brain, Behavior. An Interdisciplinary Journal publishes contributions from all areas of cognitive science, focusing on disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to information processing and behavior analysis. We encourage contributions from the following domains: psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, linguistics, ethology, anthropology and philosophy of mind. The journal covers empirical studies and theoretical reviews that expand our understanding of cognitive, neural, and behavioral mechanisms. Both fundamental and applied studies are welcomed. On occasions, special issues will be covering particular themes, under the editorship of invited experts.
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