| . Human Associative Memory, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Washington, D.C. |
....results comes from the taxonomic (or IS A) hierarchy, used by a process attempting to identify some specimen. A classification tree for birds or Kuipers, On Representing Commonsense Knowledge, 1979 10 plants is one familiar case and the human recognition system may be another [Quillian, 1968; Anderson and Bower, 1974]. A premature request for the identity of a specimen might produce marsh bird or oak, rather than the actual species, but the larger category is as useful as the smaller in most contexts. This example suggests that the taxonomic hierarchy is useful not just as a convenient abbreviation ....
. Human Associative Memory, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Washington, D.C.
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