Locating what comes to mind in empirically derived representational spaces
Cognition, 2023. [All Versions]. An evidence-based study concluding that people call category members to mind according to their location in representational space, specifically based on the predicted usefulness of considering category members with particular features.
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Concepts > Human Concept Representation: “Cognition, 2023. [All Versions]. An evidence-based study concluding that people call category members to mind according to their location in representational space, specifically based on the predicted usefulness of considering category members with particular features.”