| Abstract: | Comments on a study by W. K. Estes (see record 1986-21175-001) that examined learning processes associated with categorization in relation to new–old recognition by focusing on alternative views of recognition/classification relations and the implications of the more detailed analyses of learning for exemplar-based classification models. It is argued that strategies typically used by experimental participants and exemplar processing have some fundamental properties in common. This implies that a good fit to classification data by an exemplar model does not necessarily mean that performance is based on comparisons with remembered exemplars and suggests that abstract representations may not be different kinds of entities from the memory representation of a specific experience. (25 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
