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    "pk": 27251,
    "title": "When do learned transformations influence similarity and categorization?",
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    "abstract": "The transformational theory of similarity suggests that whenjudging similarity, people are sensitive to the number of trans-formation operations needed to make two compared repre-sentations match. Although this theory has been influential,little is known about how transformations are learned andto what extent learned transformations affect similarity judg-ments. This paper presents two experiments addressing thesequestions, in which people learned categories defined by atransformation. In Experiment 1, when the transformationswere directly visible, people had no trouble learning and ap-plied their knowledge to similarity and categorization judg-ments involving previously unseen items. In Experiment 2,the task required transformations to be inferred rather than ob-served. People were still able to learn the categories, but inthis more difficult case ratings were less strongly affected bytraining. Overall, this work suggests that newly learned trans-formations can impact similarity judgments but the salience ofthe transformation has a large impact on transfer.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "similarity; category learning; transformationalsimilarity"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mn0t2r8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Steven",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Langsford",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Adelaide",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Hendrickson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Amy",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Perfors",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Adelaide",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Navarro",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of New South Wales",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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