Van Overwalle

The Self-Organization of Distributed Cognition: a connectionist approach

The social construction of shared concepts: empirical study and computer simulation of a distributed cognitive process

Previous research Both participating research groups have extensive previous experience in fundamental research, some of it in collaboration with each other, especially in the domain of cognition and social processes. The Lab for Social Psychology has performed a number of experiments and computer simulations, among others on how people place an individual in a particular category, while modify...

The Self-Organization of Distributed Cognition

PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN Van Overwalle, Van Rooy / DISCOUNTING AND AUGMENTATION How One Cause Discounts or Augments Another: A Connectionist Account of Causal Competition

The authors investigated the degree of discounting and augmentation of a target cause by an alternative cause given a varying number of observations on the alternative cause while holding its degree of covariation constant. Two experiments showed that more observations of the alternative cause resulted in greater discounting or augmentation of a target cause. This sample size effect cannot be e...

Talking Nets: exploring a multi-agent, connectionist model of distributed communication and cognition

This research project is proposed by a multidisciplinary team led by F. Heylighen and F. Van Overwalle. Its members have expertise in cognitive science, psychology, AI, philosophy, economics, political science, and linguistics, and advanced research experience in connectionist simulation, multi-agent systems, computer-mediated communication and group experiments. The project aims to further tes...