Signatures of cross-modal alignment in children's early concepts.

ABSTRACT: Whether supervised or unsupervised, human and machine learning is usually characterized as event-based. However, learning may also proceed by systems alignment in which mappings are inferred between entire systems, such as visual and linguistic systems. Systems alignment is possible because items that share similar visual contexts, such as a car and a truck, will also tend to share similar linguistic contexts. Because of the mirrored similarity relationships across systems, the visual and linguistic systems can be aligned at some later time absent either input. In a series of simulation studies, we considered whether children's early concepts support systems alignment. We found that children's early concepts are close to optimal for inferring novel concepts through systems alignment, enabl

SUBMITTER: Aho K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10589699 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature