Everything about Domain-specific learning
Neurological theory
Domain-specific learning theories of development hold that we have many independent, specialised knowledge structures (domains), rather than one cohesive knowledge structure. Thus, training in one domain may not impact another independent domain. Domain-general views instead suggest that children possess a "general developmental function" where skills are interrelated through a single cognitive system. Therefore, whereas domain-general theories would propose that acquisition of language and mathematical skill are developed by the same broad set of cognitive skills, domain-specific theories would propose that they are genetically, neurologically and computationally independent. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Domain-specific learningA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Anatomically interpretable deep learning of brain age captures domain-specific cognitive impairmentInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Ridge Functions and Applications in Neural NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Domain‐Specific Principles Affect Learning and Transfer in ChildrenCited 264 times
- Go sideways: Psychological nativismA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Domain-general learningA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Domain‐Specific Principles Affect Learning and Transfer in Children
Domain-specific prior knowledge and learning: A meta-analysis
Domain- and task-specific transfer learning for medical segmentation tasks
Visual Sequence Learning in Infancy: Domain‐General and Domain‐Specific Associations With Language
A Survey of Domain-Specific Architectures for Reinforcement Learning
Efficient extraction of domain specific sentiment lexicon with active learning
Domain Specific Learning for Newborn Face Recognition
Domain-general sequence learning deficit in specific language impairment.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Anatomically interpretable deep learning of brain age captures domain-specific cognitive impairment
A Domain-Specific Bayesian Deep-Learning Approach for Air Pollution Forecast
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students
A domain-specific language for describing machine learning datasets
Decoupled domain-specific and domain-conditional representation learning for cross-domain recommendation
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Ridge Functions and Applications in Neural NetworksVugar E. Ismailov · 2021
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