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Isolated and interrelated concepts

R L Goldstone1

  • 1Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA. rgoldsto@indiana.edu

Memory & Cognition
|September 1, 1996
PubMed
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This study introduces a new way to measure how connected concepts are, from isolated to interrelated. Understanding concept interrelatedness helps improve models of category learning.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Concepts exist on a spectrum from isolated to interrelated.
  • Interrelatedness is defined by a concept's influence from other concepts.
  • Existing models of category learning can be refined by considering concept interrelatedness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe a continuum of concept interrelatedness.
  • To introduce methods for manipulating and identifying a concept's degree of interrelatedness.
  • To apply this distinction to category learning models and propose a connectionist framework.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical identification of isolated concepts using nondiagnostic features and prototype vs. caricature categorization.
  • Empirical identification of interrelated concepts using minimal nondiagnostic features and caricature vs. prototype categorization.

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  • Manipulations included instructing image creation, using unrelated labels, and varying category alternation frequency.

    • Main Results:

    • Isolated concepts showed better performance with prototypes than caricatures.
    • Interrelated concepts showed better performance with caricatures than prototypes.
    • Specific experimental conditions (image creation, unrelated labels, rare alternation) promoted concept isolation.

    Conclusions:

    • A graded distinction between isolated and interrelated concepts is supported by empirical data.
    • This graded distinction offers a more nuanced understanding of concept representation.
    • A connectionist framework can interpret these findings within computational models of cognition.