According to the Ouroboros Model several occasions can be distinguished over the course of the general autonomous cyclic activity in which new concepts are established and associated memories are preferentially laid down. Whereas a rather standard habituation process can lead to the extraction of statistical regularities from repeated common (consecutive) excitation, two specific instances are ...

In most research on concept formation within machine learning and cognitive psychology, the features from which concepts are built are assumed to be provided as elementary vocabulary. In this paper, we argue that this is an unnecessarily limited paradigm within which to examine concept formation. Based on evidence from psychology and machine learning, we contend that a principled account of the...

We are investigating how and why mathematicians invent new concepts while developing a theory, and implementing our ideas into the HR system, which automatically produces, assesses and displays concepts in finite algebras, such as finite group theory. We fit’st determined a reason for HI~ to produce concepts to classify a given set of groups up to isomorphism. Doing so would involve inventing c...

We present the results of a study examining the effects of category learning on the performance of five year-old children and adults on similarity judgment and same-different tasks. Participants in the learning condition learned to distinguish two kinds of invented alien stimuli by hearing an interactive story over the course of two days, at the end of which they performed three tasks. A compar...

Concept formation allows for knowledge transfer, generalization, and compact representation. Concepts are useful for the creation of a generally intelligent autonomous agent. If an autonomous agent is experiencing a changing world, then nearly every experience it has will be unique in that it will have at least slight differences from other experiences. Concepts allow an agent to generalize exp...