{"pk":32265,"title":"Debunking the Basic Level","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The goal of this paper is to introduce a new measure of basic-level performance that we will call the \"category attentional slip.\" The idea behind it is very simple: The attentional mechanisms of an ideally rational categorizer are made to \"slip\" once in a while. We provide a formalization of attentional slip that specifies what an \"ideally rational categorizer\" is and how its attention \"slips.\" We then compare its predictive capabilities with those of two established basic-level measures: category feature-possession (Jones, 1983) and category utility (Corter & Gluck, 1992). The empirical data used for the comparisons are drawn from eight classical experiments from Murphy and Smith (1982), Murphy (1991), and Tanaka and Taylor (1991).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kf8377h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Frederic","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gosselin","name_suffix":"","institution":"Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division","department":""},{"first_name":"Philippe","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Schyns","name_suffix":"","institution":"Human Factors & Applied Cognition, George Mason University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32265/galley/23330/download/"}]}