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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Conceptual combination"”.
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Modification models of conceptual combination
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1992.
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Use of Recently-Encountered Examples During the Interpretation of Noun-Noun Phrases
During the interpretation of a noun-noun combination, a relation is selected to link the two noun constituents together. I examine some of the factors that influence this selection and test the feasibility of an instance-based approach to conceptual combination. The claim is that …
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The friendly enemies: emergence effects in word choice for story generation responses to conceptual combinations
Conceptual combination, the blending of separate ideas to produce new categories, is often accompanied by emergence, a process by which novel attributes that are not present in either parent idea emerge when the concepts are combined. Previous research shows that emergence is more common when the …
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The affordance-based concept
… I introduce a new computational theory of conceptual structure that has as its core claim that concepts are neither internal nor external to the language user, but instead span the objective-subjective boundary. This theory proposes interaction and prediction as a central theme, rather than …
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Interference control in language processing: the effects of age and working memory
… models of language processing suggest that conceptual binding difficulties often observed in complex syntactic structures may be caused by semantic similarity of the to-be-integrated concepts and deficits in interference control in working memory. Furthermore, emerging evidence implies that …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
… to discourage design fixation within the conceptual design space. CAT_Switching conditions could encourage more creative design transformations with alternative design functions through inductive inferences that generalise between dissimilar artefact designs. The findings from this study …