Measuring category intuitiveness in unconstrained categorization tasks

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-100

  Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Perlman, Amotz ^a   Bailey, Todd M ^b   Kurtz, Ken ^c   Edwards, Darren J ^a   Hines, Peter ^d   McDonnell, John V ^e  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category variability; Computational models; Similarity; Unsupervised categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 79960917465     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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