Memory, reasoning, and categorization: parallels and common mechanisms
By Brett K. Hayes, Evan Heit, C. Rotello. 2014
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Traditionally, memory, reasoning, and categorization have been treated as separate components of human cognition. We challenge this distinction, arguing that there is broad scope for crossover between the methods and theories developed for each task. The links between memory and reasoning are illustrated in a review of two lines of research. The first takes theoretical ideas (two-process accounts) and methodological tools (signal detection analysis, receiver operating characteristic curves) from memory research and applies them to important issues in reasoning research: relations between induction and deduction, and the belief bias effect. The second line of research introduces a task in which subjects make either memory or reasoning judgments for the same set of stimuli. Other than broader generalization for reasoning than memory, the results were similar for the two tasks, across a variety of experimental stimuli and manipulations. It was possible to simultaneously explain performance on both tasks within a single cognitive architecture, based on exemplar-based comparisons of similarity. The final sections explore evidence for empirical and processing links between inductive reasoning and categorization and between categorization and recognition. An important implication is that progress in all three of these fields will be expedited by further investigation of the many commonalities between these tasks.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Science & Psychology
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- Augmented Language Models: a Survey (2023, background): “And, when learning world representations, memorization is not only desirable, but also deeply connected to reasoning (Hayes et al., 2014).”