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    "pk": 26113,
    "title": "No Effect of Verbal Labels for the Shapes on Type II Categorization Tasks",
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    "abstract": "Category learning is thought to be mediated—in at least some\ncategory structures—by hypothesis-testing processes. Verbal\nlabels for the stimuli and stimulus individuation have been\nshown to facilitate the formation, testing, and application of\nrules of category membership (Fotiadis & Protopapas, 2014).\nWe sought to replicate the phenomenon of facilitation due to\nverbal names for the stimuli by training participants for two\nconsecutive days to either learn new names for abstract\nshapes, or learn shape-ideogram pairings; a third group was\nunexposed to the shapes. After training, participants were\ngiven a Type II categorization task—thought to be mediated\nby verbal processes of rule discovery—utilizing the trained\nshapes. We hypothesized that verbal labels for the shapes and\nshape individuation would provide facilitative effects in\nlearning to categorize. Results revealed no effect of training\non categorization performance. This study suggests that\ncaution should be taken when generalizing findings across\nperceptual modalities or different experimental paradigms.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Verbal labels; hypothesis testing; categorization;\nlearning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Fotis",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Fotiadis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Athens",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Athanassios",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Protopapas",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Athens",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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