The role of joint control in the development of naming

Article Abstract:

C. Fergus Lowe and Pauline J. Horne are mistaken in asserting that joint control promotes a wrong chronology of component responses and is redundant to the concept of naming relation. An examination of their own account shows that joint control selection happens only after selection responses are evoked by named objects. It also shows that joint control is more efficient in its use of concepts to characterize a listener's symbolic behavior. Joint control provides a better explanation of the generality of their account than naming relation.

Stimulus generalization

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An archeology of meaning

Article Abstract:

Pauline J. Horne and C. Fergus Lowe's concept of naming relations suffers from a failure to relate their account to research and discussions in the field of semantics. They would have profited from a study of semiotic performance and development literature which describes how stimulus equivalences can be produced in animals and established in children. Other writings from scholars such as Foucault, Frege and Karl Buhler would have prevented their unreasonable rejection of the match-to-sample model for a naming explanation.

Research, Semiotics

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What's in a name? Equivalence by any other name would smell as sweet

Article Abstract:

Pauline J. Horne and C. Fergus Lowe err in presuming that verbal reasoning is required for the creation of equivalence classes in an individual. Our research with California sea lions shows that some members of this species can form equivalence relations under varying conditions without any symbolic or naming behavior. Other researchers have shown that animals and preverbal humans display abstract forms of thinking without prior knowledge of symbols or words.

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