Studies of Similarity

Tversky, Amos; Itamar, Gati

by Amos Tversky, Gati Itamar

Abstract:

Any event in the history of the organism is, in a sense, unique. Consequently, recognition, learning, and judgment presuppose an ability to categorize stimuli and classify situations by similarity. As Quine (1969) puts it:" There is nothing more basic to thought and language...

Reference:

Studies of Similarity (Amos Tversky, Gati Itamar), Chapter in Cognition and categorization (E. Rosh, B. Lloyd, eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum, 1978.

Bibtex Entry:

@incollection{Tversky1969,
abstract = {Any event in the history of the organism is, in a sense, unique. Consequently, recognition, learning, and judgment presuppose an ability to categorize stimuli and classify situations by similarity. As Quine (1969) puts it:" There is nothing more basic to thought and language...},
address = {Hillsdale, NJ},
author = {Tversky, Amos and Itamar, Gati},
booktitle = {Cognition and categorization},
editor = {Rosh, E. and Lloyd, B.},
keywords = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
mendeley-tags = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
pages = {79--98},
publisher = {Lawrence Erlbaum},
title = {{Studies of Similarity}},
year = {1978}
}