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D L Medin

    Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
    |December 1, 1986
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    This study explores how learning processes in categorization relate to recognition memory. It suggests that commonalities between participant strategies and exemplar processing imply abstract representations may stem from specific experiences.

    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Psychology

    Background:

    • Examines learning processes in categorization and new-old recognition.
    • Focuses on alternative views of recognition/classification relationships.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze implications of detailed learning analyses for exemplar-based classification models.
    • To argue for common fundamental properties between experimental participant strategies and exemplar processing.

    Main Methods:

    • Re-analysis of Estes (1986b) findings on categorization and recognition.
    • Theoretical commentary on exemplar-based models and abstract representations.

    Main Results:

    • Identifies shared fundamental properties between typical participant strategies and exemplar processing.

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  • Challenges the assumption that good fit to data by exemplar models necessitates comparison with remembered exemplars.

    • Conclusions:

    • A good fit to classification data by an exemplar model does not definitively prove performance is based on remembered exemplars.
    • Abstract representations might not be fundamentally different from memory representations of specific experiences.