Nonintentional Similarity Processing
Arthur B. Markman, Dedre Geniner · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2006
Similarity is a compelling part of everyday experience. In the visual world, objects that are similar in shape or color may seem to leap to our attention. In conceptual processing, we have an immediate sense of whether a pair of concepts is similar. The prominence of similarity in conscious experience has made it an important explanatory construct in psychological theories. New problems are assumed to be solved on the basis of their similarity to known