The role of theories in conceptual coherence.

By Gregory L. Murphy, Douglas L. Medin. 1985

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “Similarly, Murphy and Medin (1985) showed that a conceptual coherence is often governed by an underlying theory—a causal mechanism of understanding; a point echoed by Lombrozo (2009b), in which she argued that explanations and concept formation are closely related.”
A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks (2018, methodology): “In parallel to [16], this equation now implements similarity-based inductive projection of familiar features to a novel item.”
Coherent concepts are computed in the anterior temporal lobes (2010, background): “The issue at the center of this study is how this multimodal experience can be brought together to form “coherent” and generalizable semantic representations (5, 6).”
The importance of shape in early lexical learning (1988, background): “Our examination of children’s uses of perceptual dimensions in word learning might seem to run counter to the current emphasis on nonperceptual bases for categorization (for review, see Murphy & Medin, 1985).”
Referential communication and category acquisition. (1998, background): “In addition to these two views, a third prominent position is that people's theories about the world provide coherence to their category structures ( Murphy & Medin, 1985 ).”
Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups (2012, background): “Instead, these features are embedded within causal theories that do more than merely describe the category − they provide explanations for why the category is the way it is (McGarty, Yzerbyt, & Spears, 2002; Murphy & Medin, 1985).”
Tomorrow I’ll be me: The effect of time perspective on the activation of idealistic versus pragmatic selves (2007, background): “…and concrete representations have been described as underlying various psychological and linguistic processes, such as conceptualization (e.g., Murphy & Medin, 1985), goal construction (e.g., Little, 1989), action identiWcation (e.g., Vallacher & Wegner, 1989), and personal striving (e.g.,…”
The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review (2010, background): “…stimuli by grouping or classifying them according to certain principles, such as perceptual similarities (Rosch, 1978), semantic rules or theories (Murphy & Medin, 1985), implications for goal states (Barsalou, 1983) or evoked emotional responses (Niedenthal, Halberstadt, & Innes-Ker, 1999).”
Death and Black Diamonds: Meaning, Mortality, and the Meaning Maintenance Model (2006, background): “…increasingly complex elements of our internal and external environments, resulting in mental representations of expected relations that become broader in scope (Murphy & Medin, 1985) and more abstract (e.g., emerging self-concepts; Harter, 1996; a theory of mind; Tomasello, Kruger, & Ratner, 1993).”
The development of scientific reasoning skills. (2000, background): “…research conducted by Koslowski (1996) along with related research on conceptual development and causal reasoning was presented to demonstrate that both children and adults hold rich causal theories about ''everyday'' and scientific phenomena (Brewer & Samarapungavan, 1991; Murphy & Medin, 1985).”