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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814495903321

Autore

Halford Graeme S.

Titolo

Categorizing cognition : toward conceptual coherence in the foundations of psychology / / Graeme S. Halford, William H. Wilson, Glenda Andrews, and Steven Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

©2014

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

ISBN

0-262-32071-1

0-262-32070-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 pages)

Disciplina

153.01

Soggetti

Cognition

Categorization (Psychology)

Concepts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and statement of the problem -- Properties of cognitive processes -- Relational knowledge in higher cognition -- Cognitive complexities and correspondences -- Representational rank -- Acquisition of relational knowledge and the origin of symbols -- Neural nets as models of acquisition processes -- Human reasoning and relational knowledge -- Applications of relational knowledge theory -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.