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Reading Semantic Cognition as a theory of concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2008

Jesse Snedeker
Jesse Snedeker
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Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. snedeker@wjh.harvard.eduhttp://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~lds/index.html?snedeker.html
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Abstract

Any theory of semantic cognition is also a theory of concepts. There are two ways to construe the models presented by Rogers & McClelland (R&M) in Semantic Cognition. If we construe the input and output representations as concepts, then the models capture knowledge acquisition within a stable set of concepts. If we construe the hidden-layer representations as concepts, the models provide a simulation of conceptual change.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , December 2008 , pp. 727 - 728
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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