Volume 1, Number 1, 2000

EDITORIAL

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Grounded in the World: Developmental Origins of the Embodied Mind
Esther Thelen

THEMATIC COLLECTION: ABSTRACT

Perceptually Based Approaches to Understanding Early Categorization
Paul C. Quinn

THEMATIC COLLECTION: ARTICLES

Global-Before-Basic Object Categorization in Connectionist Networks and 2-Month Old Infants
Paul C. Quinn and Mark H. Johnson

A Global-to-Basic Trend in Early Categorization: Evidence From a Dual-Category Habituation Task
Barbara A. Younger and Dru D. Fearing

Mechanisms of Categorization in Infancy
Denis Mareschal and Robert French

When a Rose Is Just a Rose: The Illusion of Taxonomies in Infant Categorization
David H. Rakison

THEMATIC COLLECTION: COMMENTARIES

From Knowledge to Knowing: Real Progress in the Study of Infant Categorization
Linda B. Smith

What Global-Before-Basic Trend? Commentary on Perceptually Based Approaches to Early Categorization
Jean M. Mandler

THEMATIC COLLECTION: RESPONSE

Understanding Early Categorization: One Process or Two?
Paul C. Quinn, Mark H. Johnson, Denis Mareschal, David H. Rakison, and Barbara A. Younger

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Six-Month-Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well-Formedness
Thierry Nazzi, Deborah G. Kemler Nelson, Peter W. Jusczyk, and Ann Marie Jusczyk