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ERIC Number: EJ766484
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Apr
Pages: 6
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-295X
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Absolute Identification Is Relative: A Reply to Brown, Marley, and Lacouture (2007)
Stewart, Neil
Psychological Review, v114 n2 p533-538 Apr 2007
N. Stewart, G. D. A. Brown, and N. Chater presented a relative judgment model (RJM) of absolute identification, in which the current stimulus is judged relative to the preceding stimulus. S. Brown, A. A. J. Marley, and Y. Lacouture found that the RJM does not predict their finding of increased accuracy after large stimulus jumps, except at the expense of other effects. In fact, the RJM does predict both the core effects and increased accuracy after large jumps (although it underestimates this effect) when better constrained parameters are estimated from the trial-by-trial raw data rather than from summary plots. Further, a modified RJM, in which the stimulus from two trials ago is sometimes used as a referent, provides a better fit.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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