Early category and concept development : making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion / edited by David H. Rakison and Lisa M. Oakes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword, Categories, cognitive development, and cognitive science / Frank C. Keil -- Issues in the early development of concepts and categories : an introduction / Lisa M. Oakes and David H. Rakison -- Chunking language input to find patterns / Peter W. Jusczyk -- Concepts are not just for objects : categorization of spatial relation information by infants / Paul C. Quinn -- Parsing objects into categories : infants' perception and use of correlated attributes / Barbara A. Younger -- Conceptual categorization / Jean M. Mandler -- Principles of developmental change in infants' category formation / Lisa M. Oakes and Kelly L. Madole -- Parts, motion, and the development of the animate-inanimate distinction in infancy / David H. Rakison -- Commentary on Part I : unresolved issues in infant categorization / Leslie B. Cohen -- Links between object categorization and naming : origins and emergence in human infants / Sandra R. Waxman -- Transaction of child cognitive-linguistic abilities and adult input in the acquisition of lexical categories at the basic and subordinate levels / Carolyn B. Mervis, John R. Pani, and Ariel M. Pani.

Making an ontology : cross-linguistic evidence / Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Hanako Yoshida -- Words, kinds, and causal powers : a theory theory perspective on early naming and categorization / Alison Gopnik and Thierry Nazzi -- Theory-based categorization in early childhood / Susan A. Gelman and Melissa A. Koenig -- Acquisition and use of implicit categories in early development / Denis Mareschal -- Commentary on Part II : abilities and assumptions underlying conceptual development / Ellen M. Markman and Vikram K. Jaswal -- Final commentary : conceptual development from origins to asymptotes / Robert L. Goldstone and Mark K. Johansen.

This text brings together contemporary findings and theories about the origins and early development of categorization and conceptual abilities. Despite advances in our understanding of this area, a number of hotly debated issues remain at the centre of the controversy over categorization.

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