1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Integration of Cognitive Function in Developmentally Disabled Children
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04831009
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
認知科学
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| Research Institution | Meisei University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMOTO Jun'ichi Meisei Univ.Dept.of Humanities, Associate Prof., 人文学部, 専任講師 (60202389)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Keywords | Cognitive Function / Developmentally Disabled Children / Stimulus Equivalence / Response Equivalence / Language / VTR stimulus / Generalization / Matching-to-Sample |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to examine how cognitive functions were established and integrated in developmentally disabled children. Stimulus and response equivalence has been used as a framework for analyzing the cognitive function. The study showed that non-speech autistic child can form stimulus equivalence with visual stimuli. And, grammar was established and generalized in autistic children using conditional discrimination and sequential responding for unknown words. These results showed that paradigm of stimulus equivalence was useful for evaluating and establishing the integration of cognitive functions. Linguistic function would be organized as hierarchical structure of character, word and sentense. Response equivalence of selection of word card and construction of characters with word processor was evaluated by deaf student with severe mental retardation. The result suggested that intensive training for sequential responding of each character was required to establish response equivalence of selection and constuction. Two-word sentense was trained and generalization was assessed using VTR pictures as sample stimuli. In autistic and retarded children in one-word sentense level could acquired generalized two-word sentenses by these procedures. Also, more than two-word sentense with postpositional particles was formed in autistic children. The necessary conditions were analyzed in stimulus equivalence paradigm.
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Research Products
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