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- Title
Rule and similarity as prototype concepts.
- Authors
Smith, Edward E.
- Abstract
There is a continuum between prototypical cases of rule use and prototypical eases of similarity use. A prototypical rule: (1) is explicitly rep- resented, (2) can be verbalized, and (3) requires that the user selectively attend to a few features of the object, while ignoring the others. Prototypical similarity-use requires that: (I) the user should match the object to a mental representation holistically, and (2) there should be no selective attention or inhibition. Neural evidence supports prototypical rule-use. Most models of categorization fall between the two prototypes.
- Subjects
MENTAL representation; ABSTRACT thought; SENSORY perception; CATEGORIZATION (Psychology); CLASSIFICATION; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2005, Vol 28, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X05440017