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@misc{cogprints1608, editor = {M. Ramscar and U. Hahn and E. Cambouropolos and H. Pain}, title = {Warping Similarity Space in Category Learning by Backprop Nets}, author = {A. Tijsseling and Stevan Harnad}, publisher = {Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University}, year = {1997}, pages = {263--269}, journal = {Proceedings of SimCat 1997: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorization}, keywords = {neural networks, categorical perception, symbol grounding}, url = {http://cogprints.org/1608/}, abstract = {We report simulations with backpropagation networks trained to discriminate and then categorize a set of stimuli. The findings suggest a possible mechanism for categorical perception based on altering interstimulus similarity. } }