Close, J. and Hahn, Ulrike and Honey, R. (2010) The influence of within-category structure on stimulus similarity and stimulus generalization. In: Camtrabone, R. and Ohlsson, S. (eds.) Cognition in Flux: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 9780976831860.
Abstract
In Exp. 1, the authors report an influence of temporal contiguity in stimulus exposure on later judgments of similarity. Exposure to transformational information – that is, information that ‘connects’ two similar, but perceptually distinct stimuli – was found to have no influence on later judgments of similarity. In Exp. 2, exposure to transformational information was also found not to influence later property generalization; however, exposure to within-category structure that promoted a sense of ‘surprise’ (i.e., contained clear discontinuity) led to a reduction in later property generalization between two similar, but perceptually distinct stimuli. This latter effect was confirmed in Exp. 3 while ruling out any influence of temporal factors.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | spontaneous categorization, within-category structure, similarity, generalization, transformational knowledge, temporal dynamics, perceptual learning, sensory preconditioning |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Knowledge Lab |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2015 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12310 |
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