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Exhuming similarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2002

Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 gentner@northwestern.edu http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/gentner/
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Abstract

Tenenbaum and Griffiths' paper attempts to subsume theories of similarity – including spatial models, featural models, and structure-mapping models – into a framework based on Bayesian generalization. But in so doing it misses significant phenomena of comparison. It would be more fruitful to examine how comparison processes suggest hypotheses than to try to derive similarity from Bayesian reasoning. [Shepard; Tenenbaum & Griffiths]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , August 2001 , pp. 669
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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