Figure 2.
Left Panel. Category structure used in Ashby and O’Brien (2007). Plus-signs represent Category A stimuli and dots represent Category B stimuli. The optimal linear bound is denoted by the solid diagonal line. The dashed gray line is imposed on the category structure to represent the distinction between easy and hard trials; harder trials are located closer to the optimal linear bound while easier trials are located farther from the bound. The remaining panels represent the category structures used in Experiment 1 (middle Panel), and Experiments 2 and 3 (right panel), based on 400 randomly sampled category A (dots) and category B stimuli (crosses).
