2 papers
cs.CL2026
A Unified Account of Concepts and Chunks
Karthik Singaravadivelan, Pat Langley
Cognitive psychology has studied how people encode, use, and learn concepts that describe categories, and how they represent, recognize, and acquire chunks for familiar patterns of…
cs.AI2026
A Rational Account of Categorization Based on Information Theory
Christopher J. MacLellan, Karthik Singaravadivelan, Xin Lian +2
We present a new theory of categorization based on an information-theoretic rational analysis. To evaluate this theory, we investigate how well it can account for key findings from…