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Direct linkDuffy, Sean; Huttenlocher, Janellen; Crawford, L. Elizabeth – Developmental Science, 2006
The present study tests a model of category effects upon stimulus estimation in children. Prior work with adults suggests that people inductively generalize distributional information about a category of stimuli and use this information to adjust their estimates of individual stimuli in a way that maximizes average accuracy in estimation (see…
Descriptors: Classification, Computation, Visual Stimuli, Generalization
