Comprehending Complex Concepts

By Gregory L. Murphy. 1988

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Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue (2004, background): “A great deal of work is concerned with the comprehension of novel compounds in isolation (e.g., Murphy 1988; Wisniewski 1996), and the interpretations assigned depend on specific aspects of the words combined.”
Hybrid Vigor: Securing Venture Capital by Spanning Categories in Nanotechnology (2014, methodology): “In particular, the comprehension of mixed entities relies on an asymmetric structure where one category anchors perceptions and the other acts to modify it (Hampton, 1988; Murphy, 1988).”
Category use and category learning. (2003, background): “There is also a substantial amount of work on conceptual combination that has demonstrated how people use their concepts productively (Costello & Keane, 2000; Gagne, 2000; Murphy, 1988; Wisniewski, 1997).”
Building Machines that Learn and Think Like People (2018, background): “causality in learning, conceptual representations have been likened to intuitive theories or explanations, providing the glue that lets core features stick while other equally applicable features wash away (Murphy & Medin, 1985). Borrowing examples from Murphy and Medin (1985), the feature “flammabl”
Concepts and categories: Memory, meaning, and metaphysics (2012, unknown): “Murphy, G. L. (1988).”
The Emergence of Novel Attributes in Concept Modification (2002, unknown): “First, emergence may result from extensional feedback (Gray & Smith, 1995; Hampton, 1988, 1997; Medin & Shoben, 1988; Murphy, 1988; Rips, 1995).”
Word meaning in minds and machines (2020, methodology): “As we noted above, such combinations can require signi ﬁ cant background knowledge to produce an appropriate interpretation (Murphy, 1988).”
Designing the Solution: The Impact of Constraints on Consumers' Creativity (2005, background): “…extensive attention in both psychology and marketing: the retrieval of existing structures from memory (e.g., Perkins 1981), the creation of associations or combinations among the retrieved structures (e.g., Murphy 1988), and analogical transfer from one domain to another (e.g., Gentner 1989).”
The Centrality of Language in Human Cognition (2016, background): “Verbal cues take such categoricality to new heights by providing the ability of denoting categories at different levels of abstraction and importantly by being composed to form new categories such as “the worn green armchair” or “apartment dog” (Murphy, 1988).”
Similar and Different : The Differentiation of Basic-Level Categories (1997, methodology): “In this experiment , we examined another task that is thought to involve comparison : the interpretation of novel combinations of concepts ( see also Downing , 1977 ; Hampton , 1988 , 1991 ; Medin & Shoben , 1988 ; Murphy , 1988 ; Wisniewski & Gentner , 1991 ; Wisniewski , 1996 ) .”