Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T04:59:19.166Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Processing is shaped by multiple tasks: There is more to rules and similarity than Rules-to-Similarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Gary Lupyan  and
Gautam Vallabha
Gary Lupyan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~glupyan
Gautam Vallabha*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~glupyan
*
glupyan@cnbc.cmu.edu
vallabha@condor.cnbc.cmu.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

We argue that the Rules-Similarity continuum is only a useful formalism for particular, isolated tasks and must rest on the assumption that representations formed during a particular task are independent of other tasks. We show this to be an unrealistic conjecture. We additionally point out that describing categorization as selective weighing and abstracting of features misses the important step of discovering what the possible features are.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 28
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)