Understanding classification is a major challenge for formulating theories of both human cognition and artificial intelligence. Classification is a human mental activity which covers such diverse things as forming concepts, categorizing medical patients, recognising an acquaintance, or discriminating phonetic components of a language. This book considers both previous theories and new research and comes up with a new core model which it proposes as the basis of all forms of classification. Two versions of this model are developed, one based on symbol-processing, and one on connectionist architecture, and it is suggested that modules of each type of model coexist in the human cognitive system, competing for control of behavioural output.
1. Introduction and Basic Concepts ; 2. Category Structures and Categorization ; 3. Models for Category Learning ; 4. Categorization and Memory Processing ; 5. On the Storage and Retrieval of Categorical Information ; 6. Extensions and New Applications of the Exemplar-Similarity Model
Fergus I. M. Craik, Toronto) Craik, Fergus I. M. (Senior Scientist Emeritus, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Fergus I M Craik
David M. Green, University of Florida) Green, David M. (Graduate Research Professor of Psychology, Graduate Research Professor of Psychology, David Marvin Green
Doreen Kimura, Canada) Kimura, Doreen (Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Russell L. DeValois, Karen K. DeValois, Berkeley) DeValois, Karen K. (both Professors of Psychology, both Professors of Psychology, University of California, Russell L. De Valois, Russell L. de Valois
Arthur S. Reber, City University of New York) Reber, Arthur S. (Professor, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, Professor, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College
Doreen Kimura, Canada) Kimura, Doreen (Professor, Department of Psychology, Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Ian P. Howard, Canada) Howard, Ian P. (Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Founder of the Centre for Vision Research, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Founder of the Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, HOWARD, Howard
Janette Atkinson, Janette Atkinson Dr., UK) Atkinson Dr., Janette (, Head of the Visual Development Unit, Department of Psychology, University College London
Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Giorgio Ganis, USA) Kosslyn, Stephen M. (Chair of the Department of Psychology, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology, Chair of the Department of Psychology, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, USA) Thompson, William L. (, Psychology Department, Harvard University, USA) Ganis, Giorgio (Associate Profesor in Radiology, Associate Profesor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
C. J. Brainerd, V. F. Reyna, USA) Brainerd, C. J. (Professor, Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, Professor, Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona, USA) Reyna, V. F. (Professor, Clinical Research Unit, Professor, Clinical Research Unit, University of Arizona
B. S. Rosner, J. B. Pickering, University of Oxford) Rosner, B. S. (Visiting Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Visiting Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Winchester) Pickering, J. B. (, IBM UK Scientific Research Centre