Context theory of classification learning.

By Douglas L. Medin, Marguerite M. Schaffer. 1978

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Generalization Through the Recurrent Interaction of Episodic Memories (2012, methodology): “The REMERGE model can be considered a synthesis of classical exemplar models of memory (Hintzman, 1986; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Shiffrin & Steyvers, 1997) and a class of connectionist networks, termed interactive activation and competition (IAC) models.”
A temporal ratio model of memory. (2007, methodology): “…and the feature model share the assumption that items are located in multidimensional space, although the feature model uses binary features (akin to the model of Medin & Schaffer, 1978; see also Estes, 1994) whereas SIMPLE assumes continuous-valued dimensions (akin to the model of Nosofsky, 1986).”
Experience-Based and On-Line Categorization of Objects in Early Infancy (2010, background): “Object categories may be represented by individual exemplars of the category or by a summary representation (perhaps a prototype or rule) of the category (e.g., Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984).”
Scenario-based design (2002, background): “For example, people remember a prototypical example far better than they remember the abstract category to which it belongs (Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Rosch et al., 1976).”
Absolute identification by relative judgment. (2005, background): “Exemplar models ( Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1986) assume a long-term memory for each stimulus’s magnitude, together with the label associated with that stimulus.”
Learning From Others (2012, unknown): “Yet most models assume that learning depends on this sort of random sampling (Anderson, 1991; Goodman, Tenenbaum, Feldman, & Griffiths, 2008; Kruschke, 1992; Love, Medin, & Gureckis, 2004; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Nosofsky, Palemeri, & McKinley, 1994; Pothos & Chater, 2002).”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “In line with current thinking on categorization in cognitive psychology (Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1986, 1988; Nosofsky, Pothos, & Wills, 2011, inter alia), some recent versions of the usage-based approach (notably Pierrehumbert’s [2001] and Bybee’s [2006, 2010, 2013]) propose that the…”
A Nearest Hyperrectangle Learning Method (1991, methodology): “NGE theory is derived from a learning model called exemplar-based learning that was proposed originally as a model of human learning by Medin and Schaffer (1978).”