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The latencies of category judgments of size varied inversely with the skewness of the frequency distribution of stimuli. Although the task did not permit one-to-one identification of the stimuli, the data suggest that one function of category judgment is to reduce the uncertainty about which stimulus has been presented.
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1. This research supported by Public Health Service Grant HD-00923 and National Science Foundation Grant GB-1768.
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Jones, L.E., Parducci, A. Stimulus uncertainty and the latency of category judgment. Psychon Sci 7, 71–72 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331083
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