This paper surveys locally weighted learning, a form of lazy learning and memory-based
learning, and focuses on locally weighted linear regression. The survey discusses distance …

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 rational model of human categorization behavior is presented that assumes that
categorization reflects the derivation of optimal estimates of the probability of unseen …

This chapter describes a connectionist model of category learning called attention learning
covering map (ALCOVE). It discusses variations, extensions, and limitations of ALCOVE …

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 …

The past 50 years have seen an accumulation of evidence suggesting that associative
learning depends on high-level cognitive processes that give rise to propositional …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

The authors propose a rule-plus-exception model (RULEX) of classification learning.
According to RULEX, people learn to classify objects by forming simple logical rules and …

As an alternative to algebraic and schematic models of social judgment, a new exemplar-
based model holds that representations of specific individuals influence judgments about …

This study examines the generalizability of claims by Reber (1989, 1993) about the implicit
learning of artificial grammars to the context of adult second language acquisition (SLA). In …