Conceptual Spaces

The Geometry of Thought

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Peter Gardenfors

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Paperback / softback

Series:

A Bradford Book

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Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modelling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. Symbolic representation is particularly weak at modeling concept learning, which is paramount for understanding many cognitive phenomena. Concept learning is closely tied to the notion of similarity, which is also poorly served by the symbolic approach. Gardenfors's theory of conceptual spaces presents a framework for representing information on the conceptual level. A conceptual space is built up from geometrical structures based on a number of quality dimensions. The main applications of the theory are on the constructive side of cognitive science: as a constructive model the theory can be applied to the development of artificial systems capable of solving cognitive tasks.

Author Biography:

Peter G rdenfors is Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Conceptual Spaces- The Geometry of Thought (MIT Press) and other books.

Release date Australia

January 30th, 2004

Author

Peter Gardenfors

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

318

Series

A Bradford Book

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780262572194

Product ID

2522949

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