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Andrews, Mark; Vigliocco, Gabriella; Vinson, David – Psychological Review, 2009
The authors identify 2 major types of statistical data from which semantic representations can be learned. These are denoted as "experiential data" and "distributional data". Experiential data are derived by way of experience with the physical world and comprise the sensory-motor data obtained through sense receptors. Distributional data, by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Written Language, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Data
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Andrzejewski, Matthew E.; Cardinal, Claudia D.; Field, Douglas P.; Flannery, Barbara A.; Johnson, Michael; Bailey, Kathleen; Hineline, Philip N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005
Pigeons' choosing between fixed-interval and random-interval schedules of reinforcement was investigated in three experiments using a discrete-trial procedure. In all three experiments, the random-interval schedule was generated by sampling a probability distribution at an interval (and in multiples of the interval) equal to that of the…
Descriptors: Probability, Reinforcement, Intervals, Statistical Distributions