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Informed learning and conceptual structure: Putting the “birdness” back in the bird

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Kenneth Kurtz
Kenneth Kurtz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 kurtz@psych.stanford.edu www-psych.stanford.edu/~kurtz
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Abstract

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The computational notion of “trading spaces” is highly relevant to the psychological domain of categorization. The “theory” view of concepts can be interpreted as a recoding view. A design principle for exploiting learned recodings in order to handle the type-2 problem of forming sophisticated concepts is outlined.

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Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997, pp. 75 - 76
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press