Nosofsky (1986) proposed and tested a unified quantitative approach to modeling performance in tasks of multidimensional stimulus identification and categorization. The approach was based on the assumption that both identification and categorization decisions are governed by similarity comparisons with individually stored exemplars. By modeling patterns of identification confusions, a multidime...

Erickson and Kruschke (1998) provided a demonstration that in certain situations people will classify novel stimuli according to an extrapolated rule, even when the most similar training exemplar is an exception to the rule. This result challenged exemplar models. Nosofsky and Johansen (2000) have called this finding into question by offering an exemplar-based explanation for those data based o...

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a cluster of approaches in linguistic theory known as exemplar-based models. Such exemplar-based models are being developed in research domains as diverse as phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, semantics, syntax, and language acquisition. This special issue brings together, for the first time, articles applying exemplar-based mo...

 This work was supported by the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Foundation Key Project (Grant No. U1135003), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.60773043, 61070227) and the Foundation for Key Program of Ministry of Education of China (No. 309017). Abstract – Exemplar-based image inpainting techniques face two main problems. One is the decision of filling-in order which has a strong...

Exemplar-based models have become part and parcel of linguistics: they are used in phonetics and phonology (Johnson 1997; Pierrehumbert 2001), in morphology (Skousen 1989; Krott et al. 2002), syntax (Bod 1998; Tomasello 2003; Reali and Christiansen, in press) and semantics (Batali 2002). The appeal of exemplar models is that they can explain phenomena that are problematic for rule-based models....

In this study, an exemplar-based classifier was developed to predict which decision strategy may underlie an empirical ocular search behavior. Our rationale was mainly inspired by the exemplar-based models of categorization; that is, different decision strategies are conceived as different concepts, with the exemplar referring to the sequence of empirical fixations on decision information durin...

One category structure dominated in the shift toward exemplar-based theories of categorization. Given the theoretical burden on this category structure, the authors reanalyzed 30 of its uses over 20 years in 8 articles. The authors suggest 4 conclusions. (a) This category structure may encourage exemplar-memorization processes because of its poor structure, the learning difficulties it causes, ...