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Exclusion Learning and Emergent Symbolic Category Formation in Individuals with Severe Language Impairments and Intellectual Disabilities.

We evaluated formation of simple symbolic categories from initial learning of specific dictated word-picture relations through emergence of untaught or derived relations. Participants were 10 individuals with severe intellectual and language limitations. Three experimental categories were constructe...

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Published in:Psychological Record Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 187 - 206
Main Authors: Wilkinson, Krista M., Rosenquist, Celia, McIlvane, William J.
Format: Article
Published: Psychological Record Spring2009
Subjects:
Human behavior
People with intellectual disabilities
Psychology of learning
Psycholinguistics
Categorization (Psychology)
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