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    "pk": 26953,
    "title": "Evidence for the size principle in semantic and perceptual domains",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Shepard’s Universal Law of Generalization offered a com-pelling case for the first physics-like law in cognitive sciencethat should hold for all intelligent agents in the universe. Shep-ard’s account is based on a rational Bayesian model of general-ization, providing an answer to the question of why such a lawshould emerge. Extending this account to explain how humansuse multiple examples to make better generalizations requiresan additional assumption, called the size principle: hypothesesthat pick out fewer objects should make a larger contributionto generalization. The degree to which this principle warrantssimilarly law-like status is far from conclusive. Typically, eval-uating this principle has not been straightforward, requiringadditional assumptions. We present a new method for evaluat-ing the size principle that is more direct, and apply this methodto a diverse array of datasets. Our results provide support forthe broad applicability of the size principle.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "size principle; generalization; similarity; percep-tion"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Peterson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "L.",
            "last_name": "Griffiths",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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