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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2016 Jan;145(1):82–94. doi: 10.1037/xge0000129

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The top image depicts a kitchen. Which of the bottom images is also a kitchen? Many influential models of visual categorization assume that scenes sharing objects, such as the kitchen supply store (left), or layout, such as the laundry room (middle) would be placed into the same category by human observers. Why is the medieval kitchen also a kitchen despite having very different objects and features from the top kitchen?