Research Catalog

Title

Knowledge, concepts, and categories / edited by Koen Lamberts and David Shanks.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Lamberts, Koen.
• Shanks, David R.

Description

xiii, 464 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• The study of mental representation is a central concern in contemporary cognitive psychology. Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories is unusual in that it presents key conclusions from across the different subfields of cognitive psychology. Readers will find data from many areas, including developmental psychology, formal modelling, neuropsychology, connectionism, and philosophy.
• The difficulty of penetrating the fundamental operations of the mind is reflected in a number of ongoing debates discussed - for example, do distinct brain systems underlie the acquisition and storage of implicit and explicit knowledge, or can the evidence be accommodated by a single-system of knowledge representation?

Series Statement

Studies in cognition

Uniform Title

Studies in cognition (Cambridge, Mass.)

Subject

• Mental representation
• Categorization (Psychology)
• Thought and thinking

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Koen Lamberts and David Shanks -- 1. Knowledge and concept learning / Evan Heit -- 2. Concepts and similarity / Ulrike Hahn and Nick Chater -- 3. Hierarchical structure in concepts and the basic level of categorization / Gregory L. Murphy and Mary E. Lassaline -- 4. Conceptual combination / James Hampton -- 5. Perceiving and remembering: Category stability, variability and development / Linda B. Smith and Larissa K. Samuelson -- 6. Distributed representations and implicit knowledge: A brief introduction / David R. Shanks -- 7. Declarative and nondeclarative knowledge: Insights from cognitive neuroscience / Barbara Knowlton -- 8. Implicit learning and unconscious knowledge: Mental representation, computational mechanisms, and brain structures / Thomas Goschke -- 9. The representation of general and particular knowledge / Bruce W. A. Whittlesea -- 10. Process models of categorization / Koen Lamberts --
• 11. Learning functional relations based on experience with input-output pairs by humans and artificial neural networks / Jerome R. Busemeyer, Eunhee Byun and Edward L. Delosh [et al.] -- 12. Formal models for intra-categorical structure that can be used for data analysis / Gert Storms and Paul De Boeck.

ISBN

0262621185 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96052838

OCLC

• 36135851
• ocm36135851

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries