Robert Nosofsky

Robert Mark Nosofsky (born c. 1956) is a distinguished professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. He is best known for his exemplar theory, which has diverse applications in cognitive science and psychology. His research interest are categorization, recognition memory, math modeling, combining formal modeling and FMRI Studies. His research is in the development and testing of formal mathematical models of perceptual category learning and representation.[1][2]

Robert M. Nosofsky
Bornc. 1956 (age 64–65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materState University of New York (B.A.), Harvard University (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive science, psychology
InstitutionsIndiana University, Bloomington
ThesisAttention, Similarity, and the Identification-Categorization Relationship (1984)
Doctoral advisorsWilliam Kaye Estes
R. Duncan Luce

Life and education

He was born in U.S.A. He graduated with a B.A. in psychology and mathematics at the State University of New York in Binghamton in 1978 and a Ph.D. in psychology at Harvard University 1984.[1]

Exemplar theory

The exemplar theory, which was proposed by Robert Nosofsky is different from the prototype theory, proposed by Eleanor Rosch, and the demarcator theory, proposed by Taraneh Javanbakht. According to the exemplar theory, the human cognition of concept categories is based on the use of exemplars of concepts. The exemplar theory explains how the human beings learn and use these concept categories.[3][4][5]

Awards and honors

Robert Nosofsky received the first New Investigator Research Award of the Society of Mathematical Psychology (1987), APA's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (1993), and the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences (1995). He was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the leading honorary society in the field, in 1998. In January, he accepted the editorship of the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, one of the most prestigious theoretical-empirical journals in the field.[2]

Works
  • Nosofsky, R.M., Sanders, C., Meagher, B.J., & Douglas, B.J (2017). Toward the development of a feature-space representation for a complex natural category domain. Behavior Research Methods
  • Nosofsky, R.M., Sanders, C., Gerdom, A., Douglas, B., & McDaniel, M. (2017). On learning natural science categories that violate the family-resemblance principle. Psychological Science, 28, 104-114
  • Nosofsky, R.M., & Donkin, C. (2016). Qualitative contrast between knowledge-limited mixed-state and variable-resources models of visual change detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1507-1525
  • Nosofsky, R. M. (2016). An exemplar-retrieval model of short-term memory search: Linking categorization and probe recognition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 65, 47-84

See also

Notes
  1. "Robert Nosofsky: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences: Indiana University Bloomington". psych.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. "Robert M. Nosofsky's home page". www.cogs.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  3. Nosofsky, R. M. (2016). An exemplar-retrieval model of short-term memory search: Linking categorization and probe recognition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 65, 47-84
  4. Homa, D., Sterling, S., Trepel, L. (1981) Limitation of exemplar-based generalization and the abstraction of categorical information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 7 (6) pp. 418-439
  5. Smith, E., Medin, D. (1999). The Exemplar View. Concepts: Core Readings, 207-209
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