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Stewart, Neil and Matthews, William J. (2009) Relative judgment and knowledge of the category structure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Vol.16 (No.3). pp. 594-599. doi:10.3758/PBR.16.3.594 ISSN 1069-9384.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.3.594
Abstract
For evenly spaced stimuli, a purely relative judgment account of unidimensional categorization performance is trivial: All that is required is knowledge of the size of stimulus difference corresponding to the width of a category. For unevenly spaced stimuli, long-term knowledge of the category structure is required. In the present article, we will argue that such knowledge does not necessitate a direct, absolute mapping between (representations of) stimulus magnitudes and category labels. We will show that Stewart, Brown, and Chater's (2005) relative judgment model can account for data from absolute identification experiments with uneven stimulus spacing.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Categorization (Psychology), Judgment (Logic), Decision making -- Testing, Mental representation, Abstraction | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | ||||
Publisher: | Psychonomic Society, Inc. | ||||
ISSN: | 1069-9384 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.16 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 594-599 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3758/PBR.16.3.594 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
Grant number: | RES-062-23-0952 (ESRC), RES-000-22-2459 (ESRC), RES-000-23-1372 (ESRC) |
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