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Dynamische Konzeptverarbeitung mit imaginalen und assoziativen Strukturen

Dynamic concept processing with imaginal and associative structures

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This article presents the cooperation between an informatics and a psycholinguistic approach for modeling dynamic concept processing. As a new approach to object classification, imaginal prototypes are included in the categorical representation of the informatics framework. Objects are classified in a robust and flexible manner by gradually refined geometric shape descriptions. The psycholinguistic approach details a process model which uses the dynamics of recurrent connectionist networks to deduce and test hypotheses of temporal flow within conceptualization processes. Separation of the network into imaginal and associative subnetworks proves empirically adequate. Integration of the informatics and psycholinguistic frameworks offers a hybrid approach of dynamic concept processing.

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Diese Arbeit stellt die Kooperation eines informatischen und eines psycholinguistischen Ansatzes bei der Modellierung dynamischer Konzeptverarbeitung vor. Im informatischen Teil werden zum Zweck formbasierter Objektklassifikation imaginale Prototypen in die kategoriale Repräsentation einbezogen. Objekte werden durch sukzessive Verfeinerung geometrischer Formmodelle flexibel und robust klassifiziert. Im psycholinguistischen Ansatz wird ein Prozeßmodell entwickelt, das die Dynamik rekurrenter konnektionistischer Netze nutzt, um Hypothesen zu zeitlichen Verläufen von Konzeptualisierungsprozessen abzuleiten und sie experimentell zu prüfen. Dabei erweist sich eine Trennung in imaginale und assoziative Subnetze als empirisch adäquat. Die Verbindung zwischen den beiden Ansätzen zielt auf einen hybriden Ansatz der Modellierung dynamischer Konzeptverarbeitung ab.

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    Klaus Kessler, Martin Hoffhenke, Gert Rickheit & Ipke Wachsmuth

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Kessler, K., Hoffhenke, M., Rickheit, G. et al. Dynamische Konzeptverarbeitung mit imaginalen und assoziativen Strukturen. Kognit. Wiss. 8, 115–122 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001970050080

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