Respects for similarity

By Douglas L. Medin, Robert L. Goldstone, Dedre Gentner. 1993

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric (2018, background): “[19, 36, 35], and (3) may not actually constitute a distance metric [55].”
Generalization Strategies of Beginning High School Algebra Students. (2005, background): “Medin, Goldstone, and Gentner (1993) perceive similarity as an initial organizing principle, and that similarity is not known a priori and it is not static (Smith & Heise, 1992).”
Goal-Derived Categories: The Role of Personal and Situational Goals in Category Representations (2001, background): “In contrast, the concept of goal-derived categories offers a top-down perspective—one in which the individual actively constructs cognitive representations toward achieving salient goals (Barsalou, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991; see also Medin, Goldstone, & Gentner, 1993; Medin et al., 1997; Murphy”
Metaphor is like analogy (2001, background): “Although analogy provides the strongest evidence for structuremapping , alignment and mapping processes also apply in ordinary similarity (Centner and Markman 1997; Markman and Centner 1993; Medin, Goldstone, and Centner 1993).”
An instance theory of attention and memory. (2002, background): “Some researchers point out the limitations of the representation, arguing that it does not capture hierarchical or relational information very well (Medin et al., 1993).”
An Approach for Measuring Semantic Similarity between Words Using Multiple Information Sources (2003, background): “Evidence from psychological experiments demonstrate that similarity is context-dependent and may be asymmetric [ 13 ], [25].”
Comparison processes in social judgment: mechanisms and consequences. (2003, background): “Such a system of interconnected features is necessary to define the focus of the comparison and to guide judges’ attention to the critical attributes (Gentner & Markman, 1997; Medin et al., 1993).”
The Texture Lexicon: Understanding the Categorization of Visual Texture Terms and Their Relationship to Texture Images (1997, background): “Ohno (1980) investigated the visual perception of surface roughness of building materials. Minsky et al. (1990) has developed a system to communicate surface texture through force displays.”