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Murphy, Gregory L.; Bosch, David A.; Kim, ShinWoo – Cognitive Science, 2017
Six experiments investigated variables predicted to influence subjects' tendency to classify items by a single property ("rule-based" responding) instead of overall similarity, following the paradigm of Norenzayan et al. (2002, "Cognitive Science"), who found that European Americans tended to give more "logical"…
Descriptors: Preferences, Classification, Predictor Variables, Experiments
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Carr, Jon W.; Smith, Kenny; Cornish, Hannah; Kirby, Simon – Cognitive Science, 2017
Language maps signals onto meanings through the use of two distinct types of structure. First, the space of meanings is discretized into categories that are shared by all users of the language. Second, the signals employed by the language are compositional: The meaning of the whole is a function of its parts and the way in which those parts are…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Maps, Classification, Language Research
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Perry, Conrad; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Zorzi, Marco – Cognitive Science, 2013
It is often assumed that graphemes are a crucial level of orthographic representation above letters. Current connectionist models of reading, however, do not address how the mapping from letters to graphemes is learned. One major challenge for computational modeling is therefore developing a model that learns this mapping and can assign the…
Descriptors: English, Graphemes, Reading Processes, Cognitive Mapping
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Ibbotson, Paul; Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2012
This paper investigates whether an abstract linguistic construction shows the kind of prototype effects characteristic of non-linguistic categories, in both adults and young children. Adapting the prototype-plus-distortion methodology of Franks and Bransford (1971), we found that whereas adults were lured toward false-positive recognition of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Adults, Young Children, Recognition (Psychology)
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Garrod, Simon; Fay, Nicolas; Lee, John; Oberlander, Jon; MacLeod, Tracy – Cognitive Science, 2007
It has been suggested that iconic graphical signs evolve into symbolic graphical signs through repeated usage. This article reports a series of interactive graphical communication experiments using a "pictionary" task to establish the conditions under which the evolution might occur. Experiment 1 rules out a simple repetition based account in…
Descriptors: Interaction, Foreign Countries, Internet, Orthographic Symbols