TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints1605
UR  - http://cogprints.org/1605/
A1  - Harnad, Stevan
Y1  - 1996///
N2  - The experimental analysis of naming behavior can tell us exactly the kinds of things Horne & Lowe (H
& L) report here: (1) the conditions under which people and animals succeed or fail in naming things
and (2) the conditions under which bidirectional associations are formed between inputs (objects,
pictures of objects, seen or heard names of objects) and outputs (spoken names of objects,
multimodal operations on objects). The "stimulus equivalence" that H & L single out is really just the
reflexive, symmetric and transitive property of pairwise associations among the above. This is real and
of some interest, but it unfortunately casts very little light on symbolization and language in general,
and naming capacity in particular. The associative equivalence between name and object is trivial in
relation to the real question, which is: How do we (or any system that can do it) manage to connect
names to things correctly (Harnad 1987, 1990, 1992)? The experimental analysis of naming behavior
begs this question entirely, simply taking it for granted that the connection is somehow successfully
accomplished. 
KW  - naming behavior
KW  -  naming capacity
KW  -  stimulus equivalence
KW  -  categorization
KW  -  symbol grounding
KW  -  causal modeling 
TI  - Experimental Analysis of Naming Behavior Cannot Explain Naming Capacity
SP  - 262
AV  - public
EP  - 264
ER  -

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