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Tversky has related degree of judged similarity between (among) objects to the degree of overlap of matching features. It is shown here that the extent to which mentally retarded children judge planometric figures to be alike is related positively to the number of matching cues.
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Tversky, A. Features of similarity. Psychological Review, 1977, 84, 327–352.
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Siegel, P.S., McCord, D.M. & Crawford, A.R. An experimental note on Tversky’ s “features of similarity”. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 19, 141–142 (1982). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330212
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