Abstract
Can the humped animal's knee conceal its name? Commentary on: "The roles of shared vs. distinctive conceptual features in lexical access".
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
A prevalent view is based on semantic features, considering conceptual representations as distributed patterns of activity across sets of features related to different aspects of knowledge and experience (e.g., Rosch and Mervis, 1975; Vigliocco et al, 2004; Cree et al, 2006)
Distinctive features occur in few concepts and allow people to distinguish very similar concepts (Grondin et al, 2009), while shared features occur across many concepts indicating similarity among them (Montefinese et al, 2014a)
Summary
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Language Sciences, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. In Experiment 1, they employed categorically-related distractor-target pairs matched for semantic similarity, while manipulating distinctiveness of the distractor feature.
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