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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2022

What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison.

Steven Phillips

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

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Steven PhillipsMathematical Neuroscience Group, Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Category theorists and cognitive scientists study the structural (analogical) relations between domains of interest albeit in different contexts, that is, formal and psychological systems, respectively. Despite this basic commonality, very few cognitive scientists take a category theory approach toward understanding the structure of cognition which raises the question, What is category theory to cognitive science? An answer is given as the slogan "Category theory is to cognitive science as functor is to representation; as natural transformation is to comparison" to make category theory more accessible and informative for cognitive scientists.

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analogycategorycategory theoryfunctormatrix reasoningnatural transformation

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PMID36467129
PMCPMC9716143

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