Connectionism and psychological notions of similarity
Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (1997) Connectionism and psychological notions of similarity. In: 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 7-10 Aug 1997, Stanford, U.S..
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Abstract
Kitcher (1996) offers a critique of connectionism based on the belief that connectionist information processing relies inherently on metric similarity relations. Metric similarity measures are independent of the order of comparison (they are symmetrical) whereas human similarity judgments are asymmetrical. We answer this challenge by describing how connectionist systems naturally produce asymmetric similarity effects. Similarity is viewed as an implicit byproduct of information processing (in particular categorization) whereas the reporting of similarity judgments is a separate and explicit meta-cognitive process. The view of similarity as a process rather than the product of an explicit comparison is discussed in relation to the spatial, feature, and structural theories of similarity.
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| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Published in: Langley, P. and Shafto, M.G., eds. 1997. The Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. ISBN: 9780805829419 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Educational Neuroscience, Centre for, Birkbeck Knowledge Lab, Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Feb 2012 17:57 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4611 |
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