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MULTIDIMENSIONAL RATIO SCALING AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIMILARITY OF SIMPLE GEOMETRIC FIGURES
Author(s) -
Künnapas Teodor,
Mälhammar Gun,
Svenson Ola
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1964.tb01431.x
Subject(s) - parallelogram , percept , similarity (geometry) , multidimensional scaling , simple (philosophy) , scaling , similitude , reciprocal , function (biology) , psychology , self similarity , homogeneous , mathematics , geometry , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , perception , combinatorics , image (mathematics) , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , robot , biology
The special case of purely qualitative multidimensional similarity was studied in four experiments concerned with simple geometric figures. A previously proposed equation did not describe the relation between subjective similarity and angular separation of the percept vectors. Factor analyses indicate that in the ‘homogeneous’ experiments (with parallelogram figures) there were two pairs of inversely related subjective attributes which vary as a function of the difference between the horizontal and vertical axes of the parallelogram, and that in the ‘heterogeneous’ experiments (different figures) there were four main independent subjective attributes.