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On the psychological reality of parallel relational architectures: Whose knowledge system is it anyway?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Margaret Chalmers  and
Brendan McGonigle
Margaret Chalmers
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH8 9QT, Scotland, U.K.m.mcgonigle@ed.ac.uk orejua48@ed.ac.uk www.psy.ed.ac.uk/nis
Brendan McGonigle
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH8 9QT, Scotland, U.K.m.mcgonigle@ed.ac.uk orejua48@ed.ac.uk www.psy.ed.ac.uk/nis
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Abstract

We argue that Halford et al.'s characterisation of relational complexity offers an unadaptive principle in terms of cognitive economy, that its relation with the empirical evidence is highly selective, and that the task behaviours used in support of a multivector processing space are better described by linear serial processes which do not require n-dimensional mappings for their emergence.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 833 - 834
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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