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    "pk": 26867,
    "title": "Categorization, Information Selection and Stimulus Uncertainty",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Although a common assumption in models of perceptual dis-crimination, most models of categorization do not explicitlyaccount for uncertainty in stimulus measurement. Such un-certainty may arise from inherent perceptual noise or externalmeasurement noise (e.g., a medical test that gives variable re-sults). In this paper we explore how people decide to gatherinformation from various stimulus properties when each sam-ple or measurement is noisy. The participant’s goal is to cor-rectly classify the given item. Across two experiments we findsupport for the idea that people take category structure intoaccount when selecting information for a classification deci-sion. In addition, we find some evidence that people are alsosensitive to their own perceptual uncertainty when selectinginformation.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "attention"
        },
        {
            "word": "Categorization"
        },
        {
            "word": "information sampling"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20w5v933",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Halpern",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Todd",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Gureckis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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