For evenly spaced stimuli, a purely relative judgment account of unidimensional categorization performance is trivial: All
that is required is knowledge of the size of stimulus difference corresponding to the width of a category. For unevenly spaced
stimuli, long-term knowledge of the category structure is required. In the present article, we will argue that such knowledge
does not necessitate a direct, absolute mapping between (representations of ) stimulus magnitudes and category labels. We
will show that Stewart, Brown, and Chater’s (2005) relative judgment model can account for data from absolute identification
experiments with uneven stimulus spacing.
This research was supported by ESRC Grants RES-062-23-0952, RES-000-22-2459, and RES-000-23-1372.