Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought

by Peter Gärdenfors

Book Overview

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter G rdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches.

Symbolic representation is particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262572192
• ISBN13: 9780262572194
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher