Birds of a feather flock together: Similarity judgments with semantically rich stimuli

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-336

  Bassok, Miriam ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116372     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1996.2492     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. ANDERSON, R. C., & ORTONY, A. (1975). On putting apples into bottles - A problem of polysemy. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 167-180.
2. BARSALOU, L. W. (1983). Ad hoc categories. Memory and Cognition, 11, 82-93.
3. BARSALOU, L. W. (1991). Deriving categories to achieve goals. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Vol. 27 (pp. 1-64). New York: Academic Press.
4. BASSOK, M. (1996). Using content to interpret structure: Effects on analogical transfer. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 54-58.
5. BASSOK, M., & CHASE, V. M. (1996). Adding apples and oranges: Semantic constraints on application of formal rules. Submitted for publication.
6. BASSOK, M., & OLSETH, K. L. (1995). Object-based representations: Transfer between cases of continuous and discrete models of change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 1522-1538.
7. BASSOK, M., WU, L., & OLSETH, K. L. (1995). Judging a book by its cover: Interpretative effects of content on problem-solving transfer. Memory and Cognition, 23, 354-367.
8. CHASE, V. M., & BASSOK, M. (1995). More than feature matching: Processes underlying similarity and probability judgment. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 443-448). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
9. ESTES, W. K. (1994). Classification and Cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.
10. FALKENHAINER, B., FORBUS, K. D., & GENTNER, D. (1989). The structure mapping engine: Algorithm and examples. Artificial Intelligence, 41, 1-63.
11. GENTNER, D. (1983). Structure-mapping: A theoretical framework for analogy. Cognitive Science, 7, 155-170.
12. GENTNER, D., & FRANCE, I. M. (1988). The verb mutability effect: Studies of the combinatorial semantics of nouns and verbs. In S. L. Small, G. W. Cotrell, & M. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Lexical ambiguity resolution in the comprehension of human language (pp. 343-382). Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufman.
13. GENTNER, D., & MARKMAN, A. B. (1994). Structural alignment in comparison. Psychological Science, 5, 152-158.
14. GENTNER, D., RATTERMANN, M. J., & FORBUS, K. D. (1993). The roles of similarity in transfer: Separating retrieval from inferential soundness. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 524-575.
15. GOLDSTONE, R. L. (1994). Similarity, interactive-activation and mapping. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 3-28.
16. GOLDSTONE, R. L., & MEDIN, D. L. (1994). Time course of comparison. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 29-50.
17. GOLDSTONE, R. L., MEDIN, D. L., & GENTNER, D. (1991). Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 222-262.
18. GOODMAN, N. (1972). Seven strictures on similarity. In N. Goodman (Ed.), Problems and projects (pp. 437-447). New York: Bobbs-Merrill.
19. HOFSTADTER, D. R., MITCHELL, T. M., & FRENCH, R. M. (1987). Fluid concepts and creative analogies: A theory and its computer implementation (Tech. Rep. 87-1). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Fluid Analogies Research Group.
20. HOLYOAK, K. J., & THAGARD, P. (1989). Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction. Cognitive Science, 13, 295-355.
21. KAHNEMAN, D., & TVERSKY, A. (1972). Subjective probability: A judgment of representativeness. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 430-454.
22. LIN, E. L. (1996). Thematic relations in adult's concepts and categorization. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois.
23. LURIA, A. M. (1976). Cognitive development its cultural and social foundations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
24. MARKMAN, A. B.(1996). Structural alignment in similarity and difference judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 227-230.
25. MARKMAN, A.B., & GENTNER, D. (1993). Structural alignment during similarity comparisons. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 431-467.
26. MARKMAN, A. B., & GENTNER, D. (1996). Commonalities and differences in similarity comparisons. Memory & Cognition, 24, 235-249.
27. MARKMAN, A. B., & MEDIN, D. L. (1995). Similarity and alignment in choice. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 63, 117-130.
28. MARKMAN, E. M. (1989). Categorization and naming in children. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
29. MEDIN, D. L., GOLDSTONE, R. L., & GENTNER, D. (1990). Similarity involving attributes and relations: Judgments of similarity and difference are not inverse. Psychological Science, 1, 64-69.
30. MEDIN, D. L., GOLDSTONE, R. L., & GENTNER, D. (1993). Respects for similarity. Psychological Review, 100, 254-278.
31. MURPHY, G. L., & ALLOPENNA, P. D. (1994). The locus of knowledge effects in concept learning (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 904-919.
32. MURPHY, G. L., & MEDIN, D. L. (1985). The role of theories in conceptual coherence. Psychological Review, 92, 289-316.
33. MURPHY, G. L., & WISNIEWSKI, E. J. (1989). Categorizing objects in isolation and in scenes: What a superordinate is good for. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 572-586.
34. ORTONY, A. (1979). Beyond literal similarity. Psychological Review, 86, 161-180.
35. SLOMAN, S. A. (1996). The empirical case for two systems of reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 119, 3-22.
36. SMITH, E. E., & OSHERSON, D. N. (1989). Similarity and decision making. In S. Vosniadou & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and analogical reasoning (pp. 60-75). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
37. SMITH, E. E., & SLOMAN, S. A. (1994). Similarity-versus rule-based categorization. Memory & Cognition, 22, 377-386.
38. SPALDING, T. L. & MURPHY, G. L. (1996). Effects of background knowledge on category construction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 525-538.
39. STROHNER, H., & NELSON, K. E. (1974). The young child's development of sentence comprehension: Influence of event probability, nonverbal context, syntactic form, and strategies. Child Development, 45, 567-576.
40. TVERSKY, A. (1977). Features of similarity. Psychological Review, 84, 327-352.
41. TVERSKY, A., & KAHNEMAN, D. (1983). Extensional versus intuitive reasoning: The conjunction fallacy in probability judgment. Psychological Review, 90, 293-315.
42. WISNIEWSKI, E. J. (1996). Construal and similarity in conceptual combination. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 434-453.
43. WISNIEWSKI, E. J., & BASSOK, M. (1996). On putting milk in coffee: The effect of thematic relations on similarity judgments. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 464-468). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.