Previous research suggests that preschoolers struggle with understanding abstract relations
and with reasoning by analogy. Four experiments find, in contrast, that 3‐and 4‐year‐olds …

We present findings that relational nouns are more contextsensitive than entity nouns in two
conceptual combination recognition tasks. Across two experiments, we investigated people's …

The ability to use analogical reasoning traditionally has been considered a higher--level
ability characteristic of thinking of older children and adults. Such reasoning has not been …

A large literature has documented that comparison and contrast lead to better performance
in a variety of tasks. However, studies of comparison and contrast present contradictory …

Theories of relational concept acquisition (eg, schema induction) based on structured
intersection discovery predict that relational concepts with a probabilistic (ie, family …

Kinship has been an “essentially contested concept” in social and cultural anthropology.
Nevertheless, linguistic and anthropological linguistic studies of kinship terminologies …

Two experiments examined whether preschoolers' difficulties on tasks that required relating
pretending and knowledge (eg, Lillard, AS (1993a). Young children's conceptualization of …

The ability to correctly learn to interpret and produce novel noun-noun compounds such as
wind farm or carbon tax is an important part of the acquisition of language in various …

Los números forman parte integral de nuestro entorno cultural y se usan para múltiples
fines: gracias a ellos se cuenta, se clasifica, se ordena, se evalúan cantidades, se opera. Ya …

Previous studies have suggested that relational concepts are more mutable—more prone to
change meaning in context—than entity concepts even when both relational and entity …