From conditioning to category learning: an adaptive network model.

@article{Gluck1988FromCT,
  title={From conditioning to category learning: an adaptive network model.},
  author={Mark A. Gluck and Gordon H. Bower},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. General},
  year={1988},
  volume={117 3},
  pages={
          227-47
        }
}
  • M. Gluck, G. Bower
  • Published 1 September 1988
  • Psychology
  • Journal of experimental psychology. General
We used adaptive network theory to extend the Rescorla-Wagner (1972) least mean squares (LMS) model of associative learning to phenomena of human learning and judgment. In three experiments subjects learned to categorize hypothetical patients with particular symptom patterns as having certain diseases. When one disease is far more likely than another, the model predicts that subjects will substantially overestimate the diagnosticity of the more valid symptom for the rare disease. The results of… 
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