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Title
Isomorphic categories
Description
Learning and transfer were investigated for a categorical structure in which relevant stimulus information could be mapped without loss from one modality to another. The category space was composed of three non-overlapping, linearly-separable categories. Each stimulus was composed of a sequence of on-off events that varied in duration and number of sub-events (complexity). Categories were learned visually, haptically, or auditorily, and transferred to the same or an alternate modality. The transfer set contained old, new, and prototype stimuli, and subjects made both classification and recognition judgments. The results showed an early learning advantage in the visual modality, with transfer performance varying among the conditions in both classification and recognition. In general, classification accuracy was highest for the category prototype, with false recognition of the category prototype higher in the cross-modality conditions. The results are discussed in terms of current theories in modality transfer, and shed preliminary light on categorical transfer of temporal stimuli.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Ferguson, Ryan (Author)
- Homa, Donald (Thesis advisor)
- Goldinger, Stephen (Committee member)
- Glenberg, Arthur (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
iii, 36 p. : ill
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9446
Statement of Responsibility
by Ryan Ferguson
Description Source
Viewed on June 5, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-30)
Field of study: Psychology
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