One of the unsolved problems in the field of human concept learning concerns the factors
that determine the subjective difficulty of concepts: why are some concepts psychologically …

How do we learn concepts and categories from examples? Part of the answer might be that
we induce the simplest category consistent with a given set of example objects. This …

WHEN predicting an event, people neglect overall frequencies (base rates) of various
possibilities1. We have previously shown2 that this base-rate occurs not only with word …

It has been remarked of sophisticated computer data bases that “everything is deeply
intertwingled”(Nelson 1987). This observation also applies especially well to concept …

A recently introduced model of concept learning that pays particular attention to
computational feasibility is described. Results relating to concepts representable as boolean …

A fundamental issue in the study of cognition and the brain is the nature of mental
computation. How far does this depend on internally represented systems of rules …

THE monkey's status as a thinker has never been high; yet laboratory investigations testify,
nevertheless, to the ability of many species of monkey to learn complex tasks, if not to …

The role of rules in concept learning. The role of rules in concept learning. Citation Chase, PN,
& Danforth, JS (1991). The role of rules in concept learning. In LJ Hayes & PN Chase (Eds.) …

It is difficult to write anything short about concepts once one has written a 600-page book on
the subject (Lakoff, 1987). What I will try to do is try to set down as briefly and succinctly as …

A fundamental task of language acquisition is to extract abstract algebraic rules. Three
experiments show that 7-month-old infants attend longer to sentences with unfamiliar …