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Neo-associativism: Limited learning transfer without binding symbol representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Steven Phillips
Affiliation:
Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japansteve@ni.aist.go.jp http://www.etl.go.jp/~stevep

Abstract

Perruchet & Vinter claim that with the additional capacity to determine whether two arbitrary stimuli are the same or different, their association-based PARSER model is sufficient to account for learning transfer. This claim overstates the generalization capacity of perceptual versus nonperceptual (symbolic) relational processes. An example shows why some types of learning transfer also require the capacity to bind arbitrary representations to nonperceptual relational symbols.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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