Category variability, exemplar similarity, and perceptual classification
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Category variability, exemplar similarity, and perceptual classification.
Experiments were conducted in which observers learned to classify simple perceptual stimuli into low-variability and high-variability categories. Similarities between objects were measured in independent psychological-scaling tasks. The results showed that observers classified transfer stimuli into the high-variability categories with greater probability than was predicted by a baseline version...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/bf03206386