Beyond common features: The role of roles in determining similarity

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-231

  Jones, Matt ^a   Love, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Incidental learning; Language processing; Latent semantic analysis; Relational similarity; Role governed categories; Similarity; Thematic similarity; Verb specific thematic role

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COGNITION; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 35348976668     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

References (101)

1. Akhtar N., and Tomasello M. Young children's productivity with word order and verb morphology. Developmental Psychology 33 (1997) 952-965
2. Anderson J.R. The adaptive nature of human categorization. Psychological Review 98 (1991) 409-429
3. Baker C.F., Fillmore C.J., and Lowe J.B. The Berkeley FrameNet project. Proceedings of COLING/ACL (1998) 86-90
4. Barr R.A., and Caplan L.J. Category representations and their implications for category structure. Memory and Cognition 15 (1987) 397-418
5. Barsalou L.W. The instability of graded structure: Implications for the nature of concepts. In: Neisser U. (Ed). Concepts and conceptual development: Ecological and intellectual factors in categorization (1987), Cambridge University Press, New York 101-140
6. Bassok M., and Medin D.L. Birds of a feather flock together: similarity judgments with semantically rich stimuli. Journal of Memory and Language 36 (1997) 311-336
7. Block N. Functional role and truth conditions. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society LXI (1987) 157-181
8. Bock J.K. Syntactic persistence in language production. Cognitive Psychology 18 (1986) 355-387
9. Bock J.K., Loebell H., and Morey R. From conceptual roles to structural relations: Bridging the syntactic cleft. Psychological Review 99 (1992) 150-171
10. Boroditsky, L. (in press). Comparison and the development of knowledge. Cognition.
11. Bowdle B.F., and Gentner D. The career of metaphor. Psychological Review 112 (2005) 193-216
12. Burgess C. From simple associations to the building blocks of language: modeling meaning in memory with the HAL model. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 30 (1998) 188-198
13. Carlson G.N., and Tanenhaus M.K. Thematic roles and language comprehension. In: Wilkins W. (Ed). Thematic relations (1988), Academic Press, New York 263-288
14. Carreras, X., & M'arques, L. (2004). Introduction to the CoNLL-2004 shared task: Semantic role labeling. In H.T. Ng & E. Riloff (Eds.), Proceedings of CoNLL-2004. Boston.
15. Chang F., Bock K., and Goldberg A.E. Can thematic roles leave traces of their places?. Cognition 90 (2003) 29-49
16. Choplin J.M., and Hummel J.E. Magnitude comparisons distort mental representations of magnitude. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 131 (2002) 270-286
17. Collins A.M., and Loftus E.E. A spreading activation theory of semantic processing. Psychological Review 82 (1975) 407-428
18. Collins A.M., and Quillian M.R. Retrieval time from semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 8 (1969) 240-247
19. Diessel H., and Tomasello M. The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: a corpus-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics 12 (2001) 97-141
20. Dowty D.R. Thematic proto-roles and argument selection. Language 67 (1991) 547-619
21. Estes Z. A tale of two similarities: Comparison and integration in conceptual combination. Cognitive Science 27 (2003) 911-921
22. Ferretti T.R., McRae K., and Hatherell A. Integrating verbs, situation schemas, and thematic role concepts. Journal of Memory and Language 44 (2001) 516-547
23. Field H. Logic, meaning and conceptual role. Journal of Philosophy 69 (1977) 379-408
24. Fillmore C. The case for case. In: Bach E., and Harms R.T. (Eds). Universals in linguistic theory (1968), Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, New York 1-90
25. Fillmore C.J. Frame semantics and the nature of language. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Conference on the Origin and Development of Language and Speech 280 (1976) 20-32
26. Flores d'Arcais G.B., Schreuder R., and Glazenborg G. Semantic activation during recognition of referential words. Psychological Research 47 (1985) 39-49
27. Fodor J.A. Concepts: Where cognitive science went wrong (1998), Oxford University Press, New York
28. Gentner D. Evidence for the psychological reality of semantic components: The verbs of possession. In: Norman D.A., and Rumelhart D.E. (Eds). Explorations in Cognition (1975), W.H. Freeman, San Francisco 211-246
29. Gentner D. Structure-mapping: a theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive Science 7 (1983) 155-170
30. Gentner D., and Brem S.K. Is snow really like a shovel? Distinguishing similarity from thematic relatedness. In: Hahn M., and Sontess S.C. (Eds). Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (1999), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ 179-184
31. Gentner D., and Gunn V. Structural alignment facilitates the noticing of differences. Memory and Cognition 29 (2001) 565-577
32. Gentner D., and Kurtz K.J. Learning and using relational categories. In: Ahn W., Goldstone R.L., Love B.C., Markman A.B., and Wolff P. (Eds). Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin (2005), American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
33. Gentner D., Rattermann M.J., and Forbus K.D. The roles of similarity in transfer: separating retrievability from inferential soundness. Cognitive Psychology 25 (1993) 524-575
34. Gentner D., and Toupin C. Systematicity and surface similarity in the development of analogy. Cognitive Science 10 (1986) 277-300
35. Gildea D., and Jurafsky D. Automatic labeling of semantic roles. Computational Linguistics 28 3 (2002) 245-288
36. Gregory M.E., and Mergler N.L. Metaphor comprehension: In search of literal truth, possible truth, and metaphoricity. Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 5 (1990) 151-173
37. Goldstone R.L. Alignment-based nonmonotonicities in similarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 22 (1996) 988-1001
38. Goldstone R.L., Medin D.L., and Gentner D. Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments. Cognitive Psychology 23 (1991) 222-262
39. Goldstone R.L., and Rogosky B.J. Using relations within conceptual systems to translate across conceptual systems. Cognition 84 (2002) 295-320
40. González-Vallejo C. Making trade-offs: a probabilistic and context-sensitive model of choice behavior. Psychological Review 109 (2002) 137-154
41. Hare M., McRae K., and Elman J.L. Sense and structure: meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preferences. Journal of Memory and Language 48 (2003) 281-303
42. Hare M., McRae K., and Elman J.L. Admitting that admitting verb sense into corpus analyses makes sense. Language and Cognitive Processes 19 (2004) 181-224
43. Huber J., Payne J.W., and Puto C. Adding asymmetrically dominated alternatives: violations of regularity and the similarity heuristic. Journal of Consumer Research 9 (1982) 90-98
44. Hummel J.E., and Holyoak K.J. Distributed representations of structure: a theory of analogical access and mapping. Psychological Review 104 (1997) 427-466
45. Hutchison K.A. Is semantic priming due to association strength or feature overlap?. A microanalytic review. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 10 (2003) 785-813
46. Jones M., and Sieck W.R. Learning myopia: an adaptive recency effect in category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 29 (2003) 626-640
47. Kahneman D., and Tversky A. Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica 47 (1979) 263-291
48. Landauer T.K., and Dumais S.T. A solution to Plato's problem: the latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological Review 104 (1997) 211-240
49. Larkey L.B., and Love B.C. CAB: connectionist analogy builder. Cognitive Science 27 (2003) 781-794
50. Larkey L.B., Narvaez L., and Markman A.B. Categories among relations. In: Forbus K.D., Gentner D., and Regier T. (Eds). Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the cognitive science society (2004), Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ 1634
51. Lin E.L., and Murphy G.L. Thematic relations in adults' concepts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 130 (2001) 3-28
52. Love B.C., and Markman A.B. The nonindependence of stimulus properties in human category learning. Memory and Cognition 31 (2003) 790-799
53. Love B.C., Medin D.L., and Gureckis T.M. SUSTAIN: a network model of category learning. Psychological Review 111 (2004) 309-332
54. Lund K., and Burgess C. Producing high-dimensional semantic spaces from lexical co-occurrence. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers 28 (1996) 203-208
55. Markman A.B. What are categories, and why are they coherent?. In: Ahn W., Goldstone R.L., Love B.C., Markman A.B., and Wolff P. (Eds). Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin (2005), American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
56. Markman A.B., and Gentner D. Commonalities and differences in similarity comparisons. Memory and Cognition 24 (1996) 235-249
57. Markman A.B., and Stilwell C.H. Role-governed categories. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 13 (2001) 329-358
58. Markman E.M., and Hutchinson J.E. Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning: taxonomic versus thematic relations. Cognitive Psychology 16 1 (1984) 1-27
59. Masson M.E.J. A distributed memory model of semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21 (1995) 3-23
60. McDonald, S., & Lowe, W. (1998). Modelling functional priming and the associative boost. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 675-680. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
61. McRae K., Cree G.S., Seidenberg M.S., and McNorgan C. Semantic feature production norms for a large set of living and nonliving things. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 37 (2005) 547-559
62. McRae K., Ferretti T.R., and Amyote L. Thematic roles as verb-specific concepts. Language and Cognitive Processes 12 (1997) 137-176
63. McRae K., Hare M., Elman J.L., and Ferretti T.R. A basis for generating expectancies for verbs from nouns. Memory and Cognition 33 (2005) 1174-1184
64. McRae K., Spivey-Knowlton M.J., and Tanenhaus M.K. Modeling the influence of thematic fit (and other constraints) in on-line sentence comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language 38 (1998) 283-312
65. Medin D.L., Goldstone R.L., and Gentner D. Similarity involving attributes and relations: judgments of similarity and difference are not inverses. Psychological Science 1 (1990) 64-69
66. Medin D.L., and Schaffer M.M. Context theory of classification learning. Psychological Review 85 (1978) 207-238
67. Miller, S., Fox, H., Ramshaw, L., & Weischedel, R. (2000). A novel use of statistical parsing to extract information from text. In Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL), 226-233.
68. Moss H.E., Ostrin R.K., Tyler L.K., and Marslen-Wilson W.D. Accessing different types of lexical semantic information: Evidence from priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21 (1995) 863-883
69. Murphy G.L., and Medin D.L. The role of theories in conceptual coherence. Psychological Review 92 (1985) 289-316
70. von Neumann M., and Morgenstern O. Theory of games and economic behavior. 2nd ed. (1947), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
71. Nosofsky R.M. Attention, similarity, and the identification-categorization relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 115 (1986) 39-57
72. Nosofsky R.M., Palmeri T.J., and McKinley S.C. Rule-plus-exception model of classification learning. Psychological Review 101 (1994) 53-79
73. Nosofsky R.M., and Zaki S.R. Exemplar and prototype models revisited: response strategies, selective attention, and stimulus generalization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28 (2002) 924-940
74. Pecher D., Zeelenberg R., and Raaijmakers J.G.W. Does pizza prime coin? Perceptual priming in lexical decision and pro-nunciation. Journal of Memory and Language 38 (1998) 401-418
75. Pickering M.J., and Branigan H.P. The representation of verbs: evidence from syntactic priming in language production. Journal of Memory and Language 39 (1998) 633-651
76. Posner M.I., and Keele S.W. On the genesis of abstract ideas. Journal of Experimental Psychology 77 (1968) 353-363
77. Prior A., and Bentin S. Incidental formation of episodic associations: the importance of sentential context. Memory and Cognition 31 (2003) 306-316
78. Quiggin J. Generalized expected utility theory: The rank-dependent model (1993), Kluwer Academic, Boston
79. Reed S.K. Pattern recognition and categorization. Cognitive Psychology 3 (1972) 382-407
80. Rehder B., and Ross B.H. Abstract coherent categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 27 (2001) 1261-1275
81. Roe R.M., Busemeyer J.R., and Townsend J.T. Multialternative decision field theory: a dynamic connectionist model of decision making. Psychological Review 108 (2001) 370-392
82. Rosch E., and Mervis C.B. Family resemblances: studies in the internal structure of categories. Cognitive Psychology 7 (1975) 573-605
83. Rumelhart D.E., and Levin J.A. A language comprehension system. In: Norman D.A., and Rumelhart D.E. (Eds). Explorations in cognition (1975), W.H. Freeman, San Francisco 179-208
84. Schreuder R., Flores d'Arcais G.B., and Glazenborg G. Effects of perceptual and conceptual similarity in semantic priming. Psychological Research 45 (1984) 339-354
85. Shepard R.N. Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science 237 (1987) 1317-1323
86. Shepard R., Hovland C.L., and Jenkins H.M. Learning and memorization of classifications. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 75 (1961) 1-42
87. Simonson I., and Tversky A. Choice in context: tradeoff contrast and extremeness aversion. Journal of Marketing Research 29 (1992) 281-295
88. Smiley S.S., and Brown A.L. Conceptual preference for thematic or taxonomic relations: a nonmonotonic age trend from preschool to old age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 28 2 (1979) 249-257
89. Smith J.D., and Minda J.P. Distinguishing prototype-based and exemplar-based processes in dot-pattern category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28 (2002) 800-811
90. Spellman B.A., Holyoak K.J., and Morrison R.G. Analogical priming via semantic relations. Memory and Cognition 29 (2001) 383-393
91. Stewart N., Brown G.D.A., and Chater N. Sequence effects in categorization of simple perceptual stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 28 (2002) 3-11
92. Stewart N., Chater N., and Brown G.D.A. Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology 53 (2006) 1-26
93. Stewart N., Chater N., Stott H.P., and Reimers S. Prospect relativity: how choice options influence decision under risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 132 (2003) 23-46
94. Tomasello M. First verbs: A case study of early grammatical development (1992), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
95. Tomlinson, M., & Love, B. C. (2006). From pigeons to humans: Grounding relational learning in concrete examples. Proceedings of the Twenty-first National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06). pp. 199-204.
96. Tversky A. Features of similarity. Psychological Review 84 (1977) 327-352
97. Tversky A., and Simonson I. Context-dependent preferences. Management Science 39 (1993) 1179-1189
98. Wisniewski E.J., and Bassok M. What makes a man similar to a tie? Stimulus compatibility with comparison and integration. Cognitive Psychology 39 (1999) 208-238
99. Wisniewski E.J., Clancy E.J., and Tillman R.N. On different types of categories. In: Ahn W., Goldstone R.L., Love B.C., Markman A.B., and Wolff P. (Eds). Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin (2005), American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
100. Wisniewski E.J., and Love B.C. Relations versus properties in conceptual combination. Journal of Memory and Language 38 (1998) 117-202
101. Wittgenstein L. Philosophical Investigations (Trans. G.E.M. Anscombe) (1953), Macmillan, New York