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1. Localism as a first step toward symbolic representation.

Author

Hummel, John E.

Subjects
*MENTAL representation, *COGNITION, *SYMBOLISM (Psychology)
Abstract

Deals with the role of localist mental representations as the starting point for connectionist representations of symbolic or relational structures. Significance of localist nodes for the representation of relational structures; Notion of a localist representation.

Published
2000
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2. There is more to thinking than propositions.

Author

Penn, Derek C., Cheng, Patricia W., Holyoak, Keith J., Hummel, John E., and Povinelli, Daniel J.

Subjects
*THOUGHT & thinking, *PROPOSITION (Logic), *COGNITION, *MIND & body, *INTELLECT, *MENTAL representation, *LEARNING, *SOCIAL role, *COGNITIVE ability
Abstract

We are big fans of propositions. But we are not big fans of the "propositional approach" proposed by Mitchell et al. The authors ignore the critical role played by implicit, non-inferential processes in biological cognition, overestimate the work that propositions alone can do, and gloss over substantial differences in how different kinds of animals and different kinds of cognitive processes approximate propositional representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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