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Category-specific deficits: Will a simpler model do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Jules Davidoff
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London SE14 6NW, United [email protected] www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/academic/ps/welcome.html

Abstract

The purpose of the commentary is not to contradict HIT but rather to question whether its increase in predictive power outweighs the decrease in parsimony. For the refutable aspects of HIT, a simpler model for naming appears to achieve as much. Both models better fit the facts concerning naming performance than describe category-specificity.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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