Revisiting Wittgenstein's puzzle: Hierarchical encoding and comparison facilitate learning of probabilistic relational categories

Kittur et al. (2004, 2006) and Jung & Hummel (2011, in press) showed that people have great difficulty learning relation-based categories with a probabilistic (i.e., family resemblance) structure, in which no single relation is shared by all members of a category. Yet acquisition of such categor...

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Main Authors: Wookyoung eJung, John eHummel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00110/full