Both cognitive and educational psychology literature strive to investigate human category
and concept learning. However, both literatures focus on different phenomena and often use …

This research studies a relatively unexplored aspect of expertise–the ability to detect causal
relational patterns in multiple contexts–and demonstrates learning processes that foster this …

We investigated the effect of co-presenting training items during supervised classification
learning of novel relational categories. Strong evidence exists that comparison induces a …

Learning categories defined by the relations among objects supports the transfer of
knowledge from initial learning contexts to novel contexts that share few surface similarities …

Research has shown that differences in the prior knowledge of the participants and in the
learning indexes adopted can explain why some studies show positive learning effects of …

This chapter describes and integrates a set of theoretical and empirical contributions to the
psychology of human category learning. A synthesis of computational and behavioral …

Relational structure is important for various cognitive tasks, such as analogical transfer, but
its role in learning of new relational concepts is poorly understood. This article reports two …

This paper argues that grammatical constructions, specifically argument structure
constructions that determine the “who did what to whom” part of sentence meaning and how …

Theories of relational concept acquisition (eg, schema induction) based on structured
intersection discovery predict that relational concepts with a probabilistic (ie, family …

Natural categories are often based on intrinsic characteristics, such as shared features, but
they can also be based on extrinsic relationships to items outside the categories. Examples …