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This study investigated symbolic comparison of color similarity using a triplet paradigm. Results showed that the time to choose which of two color samples is more similar to a color name was a function of several measures of distance between the samples relative to the focal color for the category name. Since colors appear to be represented in memory only as names and images and not as abstract entities such as features or propositions, these results provide support for models of symbolic comparison that assume that items are stored and compared as mental analogs.
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This research was supported by a postgraduate scholarship to the first author and Grant A0087 to the second author from the National Research Council of Canada.
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Linde, J.T., Paivio, A. Symbolic comparison of color similarity. Memory & Cognition 7, 141–148 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197594
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