The logic of human learning

Nick Chater ()
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Nick Chater: University of Warwick

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6804, 572-573

Abstract: To make sense of the world, we humans divide it into categories. Some categories are ‘better’ - easier to learn - than others. It seems that there is a formal measure of complexity that determines how natural a category is, and how difficult it is to learn.

Date: 2000
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