Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1977

@article{Tve1977,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{Amos Tversky},
	title =	{Features of Similarity},
	journal =	{Psychological Review},
	volume =	{84},
	number =	{4},
	pages =	{327--352},
	month =	{July},
	year =	{1977},
	abstract =	{The metric and dimensional assumptions that underlie the
	geometric representation of similarity are questioned on both
	theoretical and empirical grounds. A new set-theoretic approach to
	similarity is developed in which objects are represented as collections
	of features, and similarity is described as a feature-matching process.
	Specifically, a set of qualitative assumptions is shown to imply the
	contrast model, which expresses the similarity between objects as a
	linear combination of the measures of their common and distinctive
	features. Several predictions of the contrast model are tested in the
	studies of similarity with both semantic and perceptual stimuli. The
	model is used to uncover, analyze, and explain a variety of empirical
	phenomena such as the role of common and distinctive features, the
	relations between judgments of similarity and difference, the presence
	of asymmetric similarities, and the effects of context on judgments of
	similarity. The contrast model generalizes standard representations of
	similarity data in terms of clusters and trees.  It is also used to
	analyse the relations of prototypicality and family resemblance.},
}