Selective Attention and the Formation of Linear Decision Boundaries: Reply to Maddox and Ashby (1998)
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In this reply to W. T. Maddox and E G. Ashby's (1998) commentary, the author argues that (a) Maddox and Ashby's current stance represents a marked departure from their previously published claims about the unimportance of selective attention in categorization, (b) they are inconsistent with their own work when they criticize S. C. McKinley and R. M. Nosofsky's (1996) tests of the linear-boundary models, (c) their arguments about modeling averaged data have no bearing on the central conclusions reached by McKinley and Nosofsky, and (d) they make incorrect assertions regarding the application and predictions of the exemplar model. Finally, the author defends the theoretical progress that has been made in recent years with the exemplar model and argues instead that it is the decision-bound theory of Ashby and Maddox that is in need of greater constraints.
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