Formation of Category Representations

Overview

Journal Mem Cognit

Specialty Psychology

Date 2006 May 12

PMID 16686103

Citations 7

Authors

A J Wills

Malia Noury

Nicholas J Moberly

Matthew Newport

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Abstract

Many formal models of categorization assume, implicitly or explicitly, that categorization results in the formation of direct associations from representations of the presented stimuli to representations of the experimentally provided category labels. In three categorization experiments employing a polymorphous classification structure (Dennis, Hampton, & Lea, 1973) and a partial reversal, optional shift procedure (Kendler, Kendler, & Wells, 1960), we provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that learning a new classification problem results in the creation of category representations that mediate between representations of the stimulus and the label. This hypothesis can be instantiated through the AMBRY model (Kruschke, 1996).

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