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Comparison within pairs promotes analogical abstraction in three-month-olds
Publication · October 16, 2024
Where do measurement units come from?
Abstract
Units as they exist today are highly abstract. Meters, miles, and other modern measures have no obvious basis in concrete phenomena and can apply to anything, anywhere. We show here, however, that units have not always been this way. Fo...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Relational Categories: Why they're Important and How they are Learned
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Dedre Gentner ([email protected]) & Nina Simms ([email protected]) Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208 Kenneth J. Kurtz ([email protected]), Garrett Honke ([email protected]), & Sean Snoddy ...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Cognitive Science Is and Should Be Pluralistic
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Núñez et al (2019) argue (1) that the field of Cognitive Science has failed, in that it has not arrived at a cohesive theory, and (2) that this is contrary to the intentions of the founders. Their survey of publication and citation patt...
Publication · October 16, 2024
How Does Current AI Stack Up Against Human Intelligence?
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The past decade has seen remarkable progress in artificial intelligence, with such advances as self-driving cars, IBM Watson, AlphaGo, Google Translate, face recognition, speech recognition, virtual assistants, and recommender systems. ...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Polysemy and Verb Mutability: Differing Processes of Semantic Adjustment for Verbs and Nouns
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Previous research has found that verbs are more likely to adapt their meaning to the semantic context provided by a noun than the reverse (verb mutability). One possible explanation for this effect is that verbs are more polysemous than...
Publication · October 16, 2024