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Categorization response time (RT) was examined in three separate experiments, in each of which exemplars varied on two physical dimensions. Three different types of stimuli were used: (1) horizontal and vertical line segments of varying length that were joined at an upper left corner, (2) rectangles of varying width and height, and (3) circles or semicircles of varying size with a radial arm of varying orientation. No evidence was found that stimulus familiarity or the category prototypes played any special role in determining categorization RT. Instead, RT decreased with distance from the stimulus to the categorization decision bound.
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This research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants BNS88-19403 and DBS92-094M to the first author.
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Ashby, F.G., Boynton, G. & Lee, W.W. Categorization response time with multidimensional stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics 55, 11–27 (1994). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206876
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