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In Experiment I, subjects made similarity judgments about all 56 category terms listed in the Battig and Montague (1969) norms. These judgments were then subjected to a hierarchical clustering analysis. Experiment II demonstrated that the relations among the category labels are very similar to the relations among the high dominance exemplars of these categories. Experiment III showed that the distances between the category terms in the hierarchical clustering analysis could predict RTs in a same-different paradigm.
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The authors are indebted to Lance J. Rips and James M. Waters for invaluable assistance and advice at various stages of the investigation. Part of this research was condicted while the first author was on a Social Science Research Council Fellowship at Stanford University.
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Herrmann, D.J., Shoben, E.J., Klun, J.R. et al. Cross-category structure in semantic memory. Memory & Cognition 3, 591–594 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198222
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