According to one productive and influential approach to cognition, categorization, object
recognition, and higher level cognitive processes operate on a set of fixed features, which …

Current categorization models disagree about whether people make a priori assumptions
about the structure of unfamiliar categories. Data from two experiments provided strong …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

We characterize trade policies that result from political competition when assessments of
well-being include both material and psychosocial components. The material component …

A neuropsychological theory is proposed that assumes category learning is a competition
between separate verbal and implicit (ie, procedural-learning-based) categorization …

A model of memory retrieval is described. The model embodies 4 main claims:(a) temporal
memory—traces of items are represented in memory partly in terms of their temporal …

The authors propose a rule-plus-exception model (RULEX) of classification learning.
According to RULEX, people learn to classify objects by forming simple logical rules and …

The authors propose and test an exemplar-based random walk model for predicting
response times in tasks of speeded, multidimensional perceptual classification. The model …

This study examines the generalizability of claims by Reber (1989, 1993) about the implicit
learning of artificial grammars to the context of adult second language acquisition (SLA). In …

Psychological theories of categorization generally focus on either rule-or exemplar-based
explanations. We present 2 experiments that show evidence of both rule induction and …