A symbolic-connectionist theory of relational inference and generalization.
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Psychological Review
- Vol. 110 (2) , 220-264
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.110.2.220
Abstract
The authors present a theory of how relational inference and generalization can be accomplished within a cognitive architecture that is psychologically and neurally realistic. Their proposal is a form of symbolic connectionism: a connectionist system based on distributed representations of concept meanings, using temporal synchrony to bind fillers and roles into relational structures. The authors present a specific instantiation of their theory in the form of a computer simulation model, Learning and Inference with Schemas and Analogies (LISA). By using a kind of self-supervised learning, LISA can make specific inferences and form new relational generalizations and can hence acquire new schemas by induction from examples. The authors demonstrate the sufficiency of the model by using it to simulate a body of empirical phenomena concerning analogical inference and relational generalization.Keywords
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