?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Cooperative+Categorization%3A+Coordination+of+Reference+and+Categories+in+Learning+a+Joint+Prediction+Task&rft.creator=Voiklis%2C+John&rft.creator=Corter%2C+James&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.subject=Behavioral+Analysis&rft.description=We+investigated+the+interaction+of+structure+and+convention+in+the+emergence+of+schemes+for+joint+reference+in+the+context+of+indirect+category+learning.+Participants+worked+individually+or+in+dyads+to+learn+a+set+of+functionally-defined+categories%2C+instantiated+as+supposed+alien+creatures.+The+perceptual+structure+of+these+categories+was+complex%3A+one+function+could+be+predicted+by+a+unidimensional+rule+but+the+other+was+defined+by+a+family-resemblance+substructure.+In+addition+to+the+main+function-prediction+task%2C+each+learner+worked+individually+to+sort+the+exemplars+(pre-+and+post-function+prediction)+and+in+an+individual+prediction+test+that+yielded+selective+attention+data.+Dyadic+learners+predicted+the+functional+features+with+significantly+greater+accuracy+compared+to+individual+learners.+This+dyadic+advantage+was+even+greater+for+predicting+the+simple+rule-based+function+compared+to+the+FR+function.+Also%2C+the+post-task+sorts+produced+by+dyadic+learners+correlated+more+closely+to+the+true+categories+than+did+those+of+individual+learners.&rft.publisher=Cognitive+Science+Society&rft.contributor=Love%2C+Brad&rft.contributor=McRae%2C+Ken&rft.contributor=Sloutsky%2C+Vladimir&rft.date=2008-07&rft.type=Conference+Poster&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6288%2F1%2FVoiklis_CogSci2008_Poster.0721.pdf&rft.identifier=++Voiklis%2C+John+and+Corter%2C+James++(2008)+Cooperative+Categorization%3A+Coordination+of+Reference+and+Categories+in+Learning+a+Joint+Prediction+Task.++%5BConference+Poster%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6288%2F