Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-110

  Borghi, Anna M ^a,b   Parisi, Domenico ^b   Di Ferdinando, Andrea ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Categorization; Hierarchical organization; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTION; ARBITRARY SYMBOLS; CATEGORIZATION; HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

COGNITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; SIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 24944474096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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