The concept of similarity, or a sense of 'sameness' among things, is pivotal to theories in the
cognitive sciences and beyond. Similarity, however, is a difficult thing to measure …

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When people look for things in the environment, they use target templates—mental
representations of the objects they are attempting to locate—to guide attention and to assess …

A possible solution is offered to help resolve the “two times problem” regarding the veridical
and illusory nature of time. First it is recognized that the flow (passage) of time is part of a …

In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-
called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and …

The world is four-dimensional according to fundamental physics, governed by basic laws
that operate in a spacetime that has no unique division into space and time. Yet our …

It is commonplace, when discussing the subject of psychological theory, to write articles from
the assumption that psychology differs from the physical sciences in that we have no …

Although traditional methods to collect similarity data (for multidimensional scaling [MDS])
are robust, they share a key shortcoming. Specifically, the possible pairwise comparisons in …

Similarity is one of the most important relations humans perceive, arguably subserving
category learning and categorization, generalization and discrimination, judgment and …

Psychologists collect similarity data to study a variety of phenomena including
categorization, generalization and discrimination, and representation itself. However …