Is the plant edible or poisonous? Is the person friend or foe? Was the sound made by a
predator or by the wind? All organisms assign objects and events in the environment to …

A well-known virtue of similarity-scaling techniques such as multi dimensional scaling,
Thurstonian modeling, and clustering is that they reveal hidden structure underlying …

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling
representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic …

A number of ways of taxonomizing human learning have been proposed. We examine the
evidence for one such proposal, namely, that there exist independent explicit and implicit …

In recent years, there has been rapidly growing interest in embodied cognition, a
multifaceted theoretical proposition that (1) cognitive processes are influenced by the …

Meaning is a fundamental component of nearly all aspects of human cognition, but formal
models of semantic memory have classically lagged behind many other areas of cognition …

Psychological theories of categorization generally focus on either rule-or exemplar-based
explanations. We present 2 experiments that show evidence of both rule induction and …

Recent ideas about category learning have favored exemplar processes over prototype
processes. However, research has focused on small, poorly differentiated categories and on …

Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction provides an up-to-date review of the
principal findings from more than a century of research into animal intelligence. This new …

An instance theory of attention and memory (ITAM) is presented that integrates formal
theories of attention and memory phenomena by exploiting commonalities in their formal …