| Lawrence W. Barsalou. Intra-concept similarity and its implications for inter-concept similarity. In Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony, editors, Similarity and Analogical Reasoning, pages 76 -- 121. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. |
....have to clarify is the so called system of associated commonplaces . As I argued in more detail in [11] the problems concerning the vagueness of Black s terminology can be solved by replacing the idea of a system of associated commonplaces by Barsalou s definition of concepts (as presented in [1]) Barsalou states that a concept is a collection of information. It is important to note that, on his view, the content of a concept is not fixed. The actual collection of information depends on the context. Barsalou distinguishes three types of information: context independent information (CI) ....
Lawrence W. Barsalou. Intra-concept similarity and its implications for inter-concept similarity. In Stella Vosniadou and Andrew Ortony, editors, Similarity and Analogical Reasoning, pages 76 -- 121. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989.
....but when subjects were asked they were able to assign the images to the different categories without difficulty. The non formal screening procedure was used simply because there is no formal working theory of similarity or category membership (see e.g. Snodgrass McCullough, 1986; Barsalou, 1989 or Herrnstein, 1985) The picture selection process was similar to that described by Potter (Potter Levy, 1969; Potter, 1976) Pilot studies ensured that, overall, the chosen images were recognized at approximately 80 correct for the longest viewing durations employed (to avoid either floor or ....
Barsalou, L.W. (1989). Intraconcept similarity and its implications for interconcept similarity. In: S.
....with many features. The easy explanation of this experimentally proved phenomenon is that in the former case, subjects considered all features to be the context, whereas in the latter case, there was no specification of the context and one could not use all features to determine similarity. In (Barsalou, 1989, page 77) a nice example supporting the context dependency of similarity assessment is presented. 6 It is found that something heavy is a better cue than something with a nice sound for retrieving the sentence The man lifted the piano. In contrast, something with a nice sound is a ....
....specifying edibility apples and oranges are not only comparable but the are similar in this context. Certain information automatically activates a specific context for a certain object each time this object is accessed, regardless of the current context. This is the result of stimulus bias (Barsalou, 1989; Nosofsky, 1990b) For example, if one mentions the word, skunk, it is most often the case that the notion of an unpleasant smell is activated automatically without any reference to the current context, what ever it may be. This is possible since the particular attribute has a high accessibility. ....
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Barsalou, L. W. (1989). Intraconcept similarity and its implications for interconcept similarity.
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