5Both
Ashby (see Ashby & Waldron, 1999) and Nosofsky (1986, 1991) have obtained
data similar to ours in which human participants categorized stimuli that
were probabilistically associated with two response categories. Ashby’s
approach is similar to our statistical decision model, Nosofsky’s is similar
to our exemplar model. Perhaps because of the complexities associated with
the analysis of performance by human participants, these investigators
do not appear to be aware that both models are compatible, at least to
a first approximation.