Larkey, L.B. & Markman, A.B.
Processes of
similarity judgment.
Cognitive Science, Vol 29, Number 6 (2005)
Similarity underlies fundamental cognitive capabilities such as memory, categorization, deciison making, problem solving, and reaosning. While recent approaches to similarity appreciate the structure of mental representations, they differ in teh processes posited to operate over these representations. We present an experiment that differentiates among extant structural accounts of similarity in their ability to account for patterns of similarity ratings. These data pose a challenge for transformation-based models and all but one mapping-based model, the Similarity as Interactive Activation and Mapping (SIAM) model of similarity.
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