How working memory capacity constrains the learning of relational concepts

How working memory capacity constrains the learning ...

Bibliographic description

title:	How working memory capacity constrains the learning of relational concepts
author:	Chuderski Adam , Chuderska Anna
editor:	Knauff Markus, Pauen Michael, Sebanz Natalie, Wachsmuth Ipke
Book title:	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013). Cooperative Minds : Social Interaction and Group Dynamics : Berlin, Germany 31 July - 3 August 2013
date of publication:	2013
place of publication : name of publisher:	Austin : Cognitive Science Society
pages:	2052-2057
ISBN:	978-1-62993-081-7
eISBN:	978-0-9768318-9-1
URL:	http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0378/paper0378.pdf
date accessed:	2015-02-18
notes:	Bibliogr. s. 2057. Streszcz. ang.
language:	English
Book language:	English
abstract in english:	We investigated the way in which working memory (WM) constrains the learning of relational concepts - categories defined by the way objects are assigned to roles in the structure of an underlying relation, and not by objects’ intrinsic features. By applying to a large sample a novel test of concept learning as well as the battery of WM tasks, we found that WM is a strong predictor of the scores on the test, but the WM-learning correlation decreases as the relational complexity of the to-be-learned concepts increases. Such results support those theoretical models of relational learning, which assume that learning of relational concepts (and relations in general) consumes more WM resources than just the processing of relations which have already been learned.
number of pulisher's sheets:	1
Conference:	35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; 2013-07-31; 2013-08-03; Berlin; Niemcy; indeksowana w Web of Science; ; ;
affiliation:	Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Filozofii
type:	chapter
subtype:	conference proceedings