Learning Correlations in Categorization Tasks Using Large, Ill-Defined Categories

The experiments revealed whether individual participants are sensitive to exemplar information in the form of within-category correlations between stimulus dimensions after training on large overlapping categories. Participants were trained in 1 of 2 categorization conditions. The sign of the correl...

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Learning
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Normal Distribution
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