What is information? Although researchers have used the construct of information liberally to
refer to pertinent forms of domain-specific knowledge, relatively few have attempted to …

The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to
efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information. In view of the basic role …

In what follows, we explore the general relationship between eye gaze during a category
learning task and the information conveyed by each member of the learned category. To …

We explored the nature of human informativeness judgments: namely, people's judgments
about the quantity of information that object stimuli convey about the category of objects to …

The logic operators (eg,“and,”“or,”“if, then”) play a fundamental role in concept formation,
syntactic construction, semantic expression, and deductive reasoning. In spite of this very …

Several empirical investigations have explored whether observers prefer to sort sets of
multidimensional stimuli into groups by employing one-dimensional or family-resemblance …

The ability of humans to intentionally learn, without feedback, unidimensional stimulus
relations in categorization tasks has been empirically established over the past two …

Stimulus complexity as applied to a subjective temporal estimate (STE) experiment thought
of, as is done in categorical invariance theory, in terms of the relative lack of degree of …

An intriguing and unsolved problem in cognitive science concerns the nature of and the
relationship between unsupervised and supervised categorization behavior. The former …

The way in which category specific knowledge is acquired over time has been a
longstanding central topic in the cognitive and perceptual sciences. Accordingly, the …