It's the Body, Stupid: Concept Learning According to Cognitive Science
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چکیده
We address the question “How do people learn new concepts?” from the perspective of Unified Cognitive Science. By Unified Cognitive Science, we simply mean the practice of taking seriously all relevant findings from the diverse sciences of the mind, here focusing on the question of concept learning. The particular perspective on concept learning we advocate here grows out of the Neural Theory of Language project (www.icsi.Berkeley.edu/NTL), but is compatible with most cross-disciplinary work in the field.
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