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Article: Incremental category learning without external information: an algorithm for category-opening internal learning (COIL)
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- British Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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Over the past two decades the topic of category learning has received considerable attention, and a good deal of effort has been devoted to proposing, comparing and testing different models (Estes, 1986a, b; Franks & Bransford, 1971; Hayes-Roth & Hayes-Roth, 1977; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Reed, 1972; Rosch & Mervis, 1975; Smith & Medin, 1981). Category learning as an area of study evolved from the earlier area of concept formation (Bourne, 1986; Bruner, Goodnow & Austin, 1956). However, it differs from the earlier approach in how concepts (or categories) are viewed. In concept formation, concepts were assumed to be strictly defined by necessary and sufficient ...