Table 1. Exemplar and Feature Frequency.
TEST PHASE | TRAINING PLUS TEST PHASES | ||||||
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Condition | Exemplars | Trials | Exemplar frequency | Relevant feature frequency | Specific body part frequency | Relevant feature frequency | Specific body part frequency |
Experiment 1 | |||||||
Old Far Boundary | 10 | 100 | 3.03% | 33.3% | 12.1% | 33.3% | 13.7% |
New Far Boundary | 60 | 60 | 0.30% | 33.3% | 1.8% | 33.3% | 1.2% |
Near Boundary | 60 | 60 | 0.30% | 33.3% | 12.1% | 33.3% | 13.7% |
Common Other | 10 | 60 | 1.82% | 18.2% | 9.1% | 23.5% | 11.8% |
Novel Other | 50 | 50 | 0.30% | 15.2% | 3.0% | 9.8% | 2.0% |
Experiment 2 | |||||||
Far Boundary | 10 | 100 | 2.86% | 22.9% | 11.4% | 27.7% | 13.7% |
Near Boundary | 60 | 60 | 0.29% | 22.9% | 11.4% | 27.7% | 13.7% |
Common Other | 10 | 140 | 4.00% | 40.0% | 20.0% | 34.0% | 17.0% |
Novel Other | 50 | 50 | 0.29% | 14.3% | 7.1% | 10.5% | 5.3% |
Note. The frequency of an exemplar or feature is the percentage of trials in which it occurs. Features relevant to the categorization rule are global body shape (horse-like, humanoid, fish-like, plant-like), color, and body markings. Specific body parts (e.g. which particular horse-head was used to create a horse-like shape) are irrelevant to the categorization rule. Note that for the Near and Far Boundary stimuli, relevant-feature frequency is equivalent to the frequency of the correct response category (i.e., 33% of the stimuli should be labeled as Mogs, 33% as Nibs in Experiment 1). Common and Novel Others were assigned to the same response category, so that their relevant-feature frequency sums to the probability of the “Other” response category (33% in Experiment 1, 54% in Experiment 2).