categorization how do we organize our knowledge? how do we retrieve knowledge when we need it?
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Categorization
How do we organize our knowledge? How do we retrieve knowledge when we
need it?
Do We Use Categories?
Visual agnosias (Warrington & Shallice, 1984) Double-dissociation for living and non-living Damage to Inferotemporal lobe
Category-specific neurons in temporal lobe (Kreiman et al., 2000)
Levels of Categorization
Superordinate, Basic, Subordinate More features named on Basic level (Rosch
et al., 1976) Objects tend to be named at the Basic level
(Rosch et al., 1976) Basic level can depend on knowledge –
cultural differences
Definitional Approach
Definitions determine category membership But most natural categories do not have
defining features Elements of a category instead show a
“family resemblance”
Spreading Activation Model (Collins & Loftus, 1975)
Concepts are organized in a hierarchy and linked together Cognitive Economy Spreading Activation
Example Of Network
ANIMAL eatshas skincan move
FISHhas scales
swimshas gills
BIRDhas wingsflies
has feathers
CANARYsingsis yellowTweety is one
Spreading Activation Model
Takes longer to verify statements that require travel over more nodes “A canary can fly “ - one node “A canary has skin” - two nodes up, takes about
90 ms longer to verify (Collins & Quillian, 1969)
Faster RT’s to related words in Lexical Decision Task (Meyer & Schvaneveldt, 1975)
Hedged Statements
Statements that are qualified, like: Technically, a chicken is a bird. A penguin is sort of a bird. Loosely speaking, a bat is a bird.
How do we evaluate these?
Prototype Approach(Rosch, 1973)
Compare object to the prototype of a category
Prototype is a “typical” example Average of examples (Rosch) OR Common exemplars (Medin et al., 1982)
Prototype Approach
Typicality Effect in sentence verification (Smith et al., 1974)
Typicality Effect in priming (Rosch, 1975)
Parallel Distributed Processing (Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986)
Also called Connectionist or PDP Memories are patterns of activation among a
set of “units” Each unit has an activation value Connections between units are weighted Model can learn (change weights) based on
feedback – back propagation
PDP Model
input units
output unitshiddenunits
Evolutionary Psychology
How is categorization adaptive? What do fire, women, and dangerous things
have in common?