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Zusatztext ...astoundingly wide sphere of application. Klappentext Based on Estes' Fitts Lectures, this volume details a set of psychological concepts and principles that offers a unified interpretation of a wide variety of memory, categorization, and decision-making phenomena. It stands as a great achievement by an eminent psychologist. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
