Attention, similarity, and the identification-categorization relationship.

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Summary

A unified quantitative approach to modeling subjects' identification and categorization of multidimensional perceptual stimuli is proposed and tested and some support was gained for the hypothesis that subjects distribute attention among component dimensions so as to optimize categorization performance.

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1986-03-01
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Categorization, Multidimensional scaling, Similarity (geometry), Psychology, Identification (biology)

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