{"pk":49921,"title":"Label Similarity and Stimulus Similarity Interact in Categorization","subtitle":null,"abstract":"When learning to categorize stimuli, do we assume similar things should have similar labels? Are people more likely to respond with closer labels (e.g. 2-1 vs 2-4) when stimuli are more similar to each other? Across five experiments, we report evidence of such a bias and demonstrate that it can surface across a wide range of stimulus modalities and features, and persists regardless of participants' prior knowledge of the dimensions relevant for categorization. We also characterize some of the limits of this effect: it appears sensitive to the specific configuration of label-stimulus mappings, and may depend on overt similarity relations in label space. At minimum, our findings indicate the need to consider label-stimulus configurations when designing categorization experiments. They also hint more broadly at how label-to-stimulus mappings may affect how we structure novel categories.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Analogy; Concepts and categories; Embodied Cognition; Language and thought"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5w06f1w5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Wesley","middle_name":"","last_name":"Leong","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Connecticut","department":""},{"first_name":"Casey","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Roark","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of New Hampshire","department":""},{"first_name":"EILING","middle_name":"","last_name":"YEE","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Connecticut","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49921/galley/37883/download/"}]}