Thanks for the more specific answer. It was the most illuminating of the ones I've gotten. I realize that this isn't really the right list for questions about human subjects experiments; just thought I'd give it a try.
Richard Loosemore wrote: > Harry Chesley wrote: >> On 1/9/2009 9:45 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote: >>> There are certainly experiments that might address some of your >>> concerns, but I am afraid you will have to acquire a general >>> knowledge of what is known, first, to be able to make sense of what >>> they might tell you. There is nothing that can be plucked and >>> delivered as a direct answer. >> >> I was not asking for a complete answer. I was asking for experiments >> that shed light on the area. I don't expect a mature answer, only >> more food for thought. Your answer that there are such experiments, >> but you're not going to tell me what they are is not a useful one. >> Don't worry about whether I can digest the experimental context. >> Maybe I know more than you assume I do. > > What I am trying to say is that you will find answers that are > partially relevant to your question scattered across about a third of > the chapters of any comprehensive introduction to cognitive > psychology. And then, at a deeper level, you will find something of > relevance in numerous more specialized documents. But they are so > scattered that I could not possibly start to produce a comprehensive > list! > > For example, the easiest things to mention are "object perception" > within a developmental psychology framework (see a dev psych textbook > for entire chapters on that); the psycholgy of "concepts" will > involve numerous experiments that require judgements of whether > objects are same or different (but in each case the experiment will > not be focussed on answering the direct question you might be > asking); the question of how concepts are represented sometimes > involves the dialectic between the "prototype" and "exemplar" camps > (see book by Smith and Medin), which partially touches on the > question; there are discussions in the connectionist literature about > the problem of type-token discrimination (see Norman's chapter at the > end of the second PDP volume - McClelland and Rumelhart 1986/7); then > there is neurospychology of naming... see books on psychololinguistics > like the one written by Trevor Harley for a comprehensive introduction > to that area); there are also vast numbers of studies to do with > recognition of abstract concepts using neural nets (you could pick up > three or four papers that I wrote in the 1990s which center on the > problem of extracting the spelled for of words using phoneme clusters > if you look at the publications section of my website, susaro.com, but > there are thousands of others)......... > > Then, you could also wait for my own textbook (in preparation) which > treats the formation of concepts and the mechanisms of abstraction > from the Molecular perspective. > > > These are just examples picked at random. none of them answer your > question, they just give you pieces of the puzzle, for you to assemble > into a half-working answer after a couple of years of study ;-). > > > Anyone who knew the field would say, in response to your inquiry, "But > what exactly do you mean by the question....?", and they would say > this because your question touches upon about six or seven major areas > of inquiry, in the most general possible terms. > > > > > > Richard Loosemore > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=126863270-d7b0b0 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
