Harry Chesley wrote:
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.
In general no.
But that is my specialty.
Richard Loosemore
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
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