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Empirical dissociations between rule-based and similarity-based categorization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Gregory Ashby*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/%7Eashby/index.htm
Michael B. Casale*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/%7Eashby/index.htm

Abstract

The target article postulates that rule-based and similarity-based categorization are best described by a unitary process. A number of recent empirical dissociations between rule-based and similarity-based categorization severely challenge this view. Collectively, these new results provide strong evidence that these two types of category learning are mediated by separate systems.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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