Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
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This essay in the “anthropology of science” is about how cognition constrains culture in
producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the …

Analysis and case studies show that including different orientations toward the natural world
makes for more effective scientific practice and science education. The answers to scientific …

Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations,
Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines. They get themselves …

Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past
experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize …

This text presents state-of-the-art methods for develo** concepts appropriate for nursing. It
offers a wide array of approaches to concept development, ranging from the classic to the …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

Abstract SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network)
is a model of how humans learn categories from examples. SUSTAIN initially assumes a …

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Throughout the history of psychology, from its earliest philosophical phase through to
modern times, it has always been taken as an empirical fact that humans have a faculty to …