{"pk":27852,"title":"Adults use gradient similarity information in compositional rules","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When learning about the world, we develop mental represen-tations or concepts for things we have never seen. At the sametime, we also develop representations for things that are similarto what we have experienced. Traditionally, similarity-basedand rule-based systems have been used as distinct models tocapture conceptual representation. However, it seems implau-sible that we do not flexibly deploy both systems. Whetherboth systems can be used simultaneously to represent compo-nents of a single concept is an open empirical question. Oneexample suggesting that the use of both systems is possible isthe concept of a ZEBRA , which looks like a horse but striped.Using an artificial concept learning task, we test whether peo-ple can combine similarity and rules compositionally in orderto represent concepts. Our results suggest that people are ableto compose similarity and rules when mentally representing asingle concept.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"concept learning"},{"word":"Conceptual representation"},{"word":"Similarity"},{"word":"Rules"},{"word":"Generalization"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8676p34d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lauren","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Oey","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Francis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mollica","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rochester","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Piantadosi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Rochester","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27852/galley/17490/download/"}]}