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Contrasting Semantic versus Inhibitory Processing in the Angular Gyrus: An fMRI Study by Lewis, Gwyneth A, Poeppel, David, Murphy, Gregory L

“…Abstract Recent studies of semantic memory have focused on dissociating the neural bases of two foundational components of human thought: taxonomic categories,…”
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Is there an exemplar theory of concepts? by Murphy, Gregory L.

“…It is common to describe two main theories of concepts: prototype theories, which rely on some form of summary description of a category, and exemplar…”
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Uncertainty in Category-Based Induction: When Do People Integrate Across Categories? by Murphy, Gregory L, Ross, Brian H

“…Two experiments investigated how people perform category-based induction for items that have uncertain categorization. Whereas normative considerations suggest…”
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Influence of emotionally charged information on category-based induction by Zhu, Jennifer, Murphy, Gregory L

“…Categories help us make predictions, or inductions, about new objects. However, we cannot always be certain that a novel object belongs to the category we are…”
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Word Meaning in Minds and Machines by Lake, Brenden M., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Machines have achieved a broad and growing set of linguistic competencies, thanks to recent progress in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Psychologists have…”
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Categories, concepts, and conditioning: how humans generalize fear by Dunsmoor, Joseph E, Murphy, Gregory L

“…Highlights • Pavlovian conditioning is an important model for understanding fear and anxiety in humans. • We review recent findings that cannot be accommodated…”
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On Fodor's First Law of the Nonexistence of Cognitive Science by Murphy, Gregory L.

“…In his enormously influential The Modularity of Mind, Jerry Fodor (1983) proposed that the mind was divided into input modules and central processes. Much…”
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Stimulus Typicality Determines How Broadly Fear Is Generalized by Dunsmoor, Joseph E., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…The ability to represent knowledge at the category level promotes the transfer of learning. How this ability integrates with basic forms of conditioned…”
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The neural bases of taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations: An MEG study by Lewis, Gwyneth A., Poeppel, David, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Converging evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging studies of human concepts indicate distinct neural systems for taxonomic and thematic knowledge. A recent…”
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Maxim of quantity and presupposition in understanding object labels by Frisson, Steven, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Two experiments investigated whether listeners mandatorily apply the Gricean maxim of quantity. In conversation, it is infelicitous to use a label that does…”
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Does practice in category learning increase rule use or exemplar use—or both? by Thibaut, Jean-Pierre, Gelaes, Sabine, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Categorization research has demonstrated the use of both rules and remembered exemplars in classification, although there is disagreement over whether learners…”
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People's sensitivity to content vs. formal properties of visual stimuli: Evidence from category construction by Murphy, Gregory L., Shuwairi, Sarah M.

“…When people are asked to classify visual stimuli, they are often insensitive to formal properties, such as their 3D coherence or symmetry. We investigated…”
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Do Americans Have a Preference for Rule‐Based Classification? by Murphy, Gregory L., Bosch, David A., Kim, ShinWoo

“…Six experiments investigated variables predicted to influence subjects’ tendency to classify items by a single property (rule‐based responding) instead of…”
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Learning of role-governed and thematic categories by Goldwater, Micah B., Bainbridge, Rebecca, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Natural categories are often based on intrinsic characteristics, such as shared features, but they can also be based on extrinsic relationships to items…”
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Conceptual understanding of complexity, symmetry, and object coherence in young children by Shuwairi, Sarah M., Tran, Annie, Belardo, John, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Prior work showed that infants look longer at impossible figures than possible ones, although it is unclear whether they or older children understand…”
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Do Salient Features Overshadow Learning of Other Features in Category Learning? by Murphy, Gregory L, Dunsmoor, Joseph E

“…Hundreds of associative learning experiments have examined how animals learn to predict an aversive outcome, such as a shock, loud sound, or puff of air in the…”
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Implicit and Explicit Processes in Category-Based Induction: Is Induction Best When We Don't Think? by Chen, Stephanie Y., Ross, Brian H., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…In category-based induction (CBI), people use category information to predict unknown properties of exemplars. When an item's classification is uncertain,…”
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Eyetracking Reveals Multiple-Category Use in Induction by Chen, Stephanie Y., Ross, Brian H., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Category information is used to predict properties of new category members. When categorization is uncertain, people often rely on only one, most likely…”
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Polysemy in sentence comprehension: Effects of meaning dominance by Foraker, Stephani, Murphy, Gregory L.

“…► Three experiments showed sense frequency effects when processing polysemous words. ► More difficulty shifting from dominant context to subordinate sense than…”
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The representation of polysemy: MEG evidence by Pylkkänen, Liina, Llinás, Rodolfo, Murphy, Gregory L

“…Most words in natural language are polysemous, that is, they can be used in more than one way. For example, paper can be used to refer to a substance made out…”
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