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Developing structured representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Leonidas A. A. Doumas  and
Lindsey E. Richland
Leonidas A. A. Doumas
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
Lindsey E. Richland
Affiliation:
Department of Education, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-5500. adoumas@indiana.edulerich@uci.eduhttp://www.gse.uci.edu/richland
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Abstract

Leech et al.'s model proposes representing relations as primed transformations rather than as structured representations (explicit representations of relations and their roles dynamically bound to fillers). However, this renders the model unable to explain several developmental trends (including relational integration and all changes not attributable to growth in relational knowledge). We suggest looking to an alternative computational model that learns structured representations from examples.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 384 - 385
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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