Kenneth Kurtz of Binghamton University will present a special talk on “The Psychology of Human Category Learning: An Overview and New Directions”. It will be held in N451 in the Integrative Learning Center, Friday Oct. 27th from 1:30 to 2:30. An abstract follows.
Abstract. I will discuss influential explanatory constructs in the psychology of human category learning including major dichotomies with regard to process (rules vs similarity, data vs theory) and representation (abstract vs concrete, distributed vs localist). Subsequently, I will present emerging approaches with an emphasis on recent modeling and behavioral results from my laboratory.