report announcement: Five principles of category learning

[John Kruschke]

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Kruschke, J. K. & Erickson, M. A. (to appear). Five
principles for models of category learning. Invited
chapter in: Z. Dienes (ed.), Connectionism and Human
Learning. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

ABSTRACT: The primary goal of this chapter is to report a
connectionist model that integrates five principles of
category learning previously implemented separately.
Previous work by Kruschke (1995) modeled the
generalization phase of the ``inverse base-rate effect''
(Medin and Edelson, 1988), but did not address performance
in the learning phase.  That work emphasized the
principles of rapid attention shifts and consistent use of
base rate knowledge.  Subsequent work by Kruschke and
Bradley (1995) addressed the learning phase of a simpler
categorization task, and emphasized the principles of
short-term memory and strategic guessing.  The present
chapter integrates principles from both previous reports,
and applies the integrated model to both the learning and
generalization phases of the inverse base-rate effect.

PostScript for this chapter, and for the previous papers
cited in the abstract, may be retrieved from the Research
section of my Web page, which has address (URL) listed
below.

  John K. Kruschke          e-mail: kruschke at indiana.edu 
  Dept. of Psychology             office: (812) 855-3192 
  Indiana University                 lab: (812) 855-9613 
  Bloomington, IN 47405-1301 USA     fax: (812) 855-4691
  URL= http://silver.ucs.indiana.edu/~kruschke/home.html

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