| Budget Amount *help |
¥8,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,860,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on adults’ behavioral data, recent studies have proposed the theory, which treats semantic knowledge as the networks reflecting the associative or similarity relationship between concepts. It is, however, considered difficult to analyze infants’ and children’s semantic knowledge in a large scale network, which is crucial to understand its development. The major reason for this difficulty is that children cannot articulate their ideas on the conceptual relationships. Toward this problem, by statistically estimating semantic comprehension from non-verbal behavioral data, this research project has proposed the set of analytic tools for understanding the development of semantic knowledge in infancy and childhood.
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