  In this paper we establish a link between preferential semantics for
description logics and self-organising maps, which have been proposed as
possible candidates to explain the psychological mechanisms underlying category
generalisation. In particular, we show that a concept-wise multipreference
semantics, which takes into account preferences with respect to different
concepts and has been recently proposed for defeasible description logics, can
be used to to provide a logical interpretation of SOMs. We also provide a
logical interpretation of SOMs in terms of a fuzzy description logic as well as
a probabilistic account.
