Concepts and categories Flashcards
Understanding Concepts
Categorization
Neural Representation of Categories
Faces vs. Places
Animals vs. Tools – Picture Naming
Patients with Anomia
Category-Specific Naming Deficits
Herpes Encephalitis
Category-Specific Naming Deficit
Category-Specific Naming Deficit
Category-Specific Naming Deficit
How are Concepts Organized?
Distributed/Fully-Grounded Models
Distributed + Amodal Hub Models
Why are Categories Important?
Why are Categories Important?
Categories are comprised of a set of exemplars.
Classical View
Let’s define “Dog”
Let’s define “Dog”
Another Example
Problem with Definitions
What about a Taxonomy or Knowledge Network Instead?
Knowledge Network
Knowledge Network
Knowledge Network
How do we decide?
Family of Resemblances
What is the evidence that certain category members are better exemplars than others?
Typicality Ratings for “Fruit” & “Bird” Categories
Typicality Also Influences Picture Identification
Evidence that Categories are Graded- But context matters
What is the representation of a Category?
Category Representation
Category Representation
Category Representation
Theory of Category Representation
Theory of Category Representation
Theory of Category Representation
There is more to representation.