The Dynamics of Concepts: A Connectionist Model / Edition 1

by Philip R.van Loocke

Overview

This book offers a model for concepts and their dynamics. A basic assumptionis that concepts are composed of specified components, which are representedby large binary patterns whose psychological meaning is governed by the interaction between conceptual modules and other functional modules. A recurrent connectionist model is developed in which some inputs are attracted faster than others by an attractor, where convergence times can beinterpreted as decision latencies. The learning rule proposed is extracted from psychological experiments. The rule has the property that that whena context becomes more familiar, the associations between the concepts of the context spontaneously evolve from loose associations to a more taxonomicorganization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540576471
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/11/1994
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #766
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	347
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Semantic and pre-semantic representations.- Demarcation of a module for non-verbal representations.- Feature packages and the representation of function.- The internal structure of categories.- A connectionist model and a proposal for a learning rule.- Prototypes and more general typicality-effects.- The influence of contexts on typicalities.- The basic level of taxonomic organization.- Conceptual Organization and Its Development.- The empirical psychology of concept development.- General discussion.