http://neurodudes.com/2006/01/06/is-induction-based-on-similarity-or-categories-in-children/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://neurodudes.com/2006/01/06/is-induction-based-on-similarity-or-categories-in-children/#comment-1173 Neville Sanjana Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:22:47 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/?p=219#comment-1173 For some time, I've been interested in similarity vs. category-induction models of how humans learn new concepts. Here's <a href="http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips15/CS08.pdf" rel="nofollow">a link to a NIPS paper of mine</a> from a few years ago, showing how category-based models do a better job at accounting for human learning. We were primarily interested in *how* humans form these categories when using similarity elements (like perceptual similarity) to construct categories. All subjects in the study were adults, though... For some time, I’ve been interested in similarity vs. category-induction models of how humans learn new concepts. Here’s a link to a NIPS paper of mine from a few years ago, showing how category-based models do a better job at accounting for human learning. We were primarily interested in *how* humans form these categories when using similarity elements (like perceptual similarity) to construct categories. All subjects in the study were adults, though…

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