Editors’ Introduction: Conceptual Spaces at Work

This introductory chapter provides a non-technical presentation of conceptual spaces as a representational framework for modeling different kinds of similarity relations in various cognitive domains. Moreover, we briefly summarize each chapter in this volume.

[1]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Modeling Diachronic Changes in Structuralism and in Conceptual Spaces , 2014 .

[2]  Salvatore Gaglio,et al.  Conceptual Spaces for Computer Vision Representations , 2001, Artificial Intelligence Review.

[3]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Induction, Conceptual Spaces and AI , 1990, Philosophy of Science.

[4]  P. Kay.  Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution , 1969 .

[5]  P. Gärdenfors.  The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces , 2014 .

[6]  George Lakoff,et al.  Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things , 1987 .

[7]  L. Barsalou.  Frames, concepts, and conceptual fields , 1992 .

[8]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Using Conceptual Spaces to Model Actions and Events , 2012, J. Semant..

[9]  L. Steels,et al.  Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning , 2000 .

[10]  E. Rosch,et al.  Categorization of Natural Objects , 1981 .

[11]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories , 2012, Synthese.

[12]  Alison Wray,et al.  The transition to language , 2002 .

[13]  Frank Zenker,et al.  From Features via Frames to Spaces: Modeling Scientific Conceptual Change Without Incommensurability or Aprioricity , 2014 .

[14]  Margaret W. Matlin,et al.  Sensation and perception (2nd ed.). , 1988 .

[15]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Event structure, conceptual spaces and the semantics of verbs , 2012 .

[16]  R. Langacker.  Foundations of cognitive grammar , 1983 .

[17]  Gerhard Jäger,et al.  Natural Color Categories Are Convex Sets , 2009, Amsterdam Colloquium on Logic, Language and Meaning.

[18]  E. Rosch.  Cognitive Representations of Semantic Categories. , 1975 .

[19]  A. Chella,et al.  Conceptual representations of actions for autonomous robots , 2001, Robotics Auton. Syst..

[20]  Atsuyuki Okabe,et al.  Spatial Tessellations: Concepts and Applications of Voronoi Diagrams , 1992, Wiley Series in Probability and Mathematical Statistics.

[21]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Conceptual spaces - the geometry of thought , 2000 .

[22]  Peter Gärdenfors,et al.  Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces , 2007 .