A unified theory of performance in absolute identification tasks

识别刺激的能力在人类认知中至关重要，并在绝对识别任务中得到研究，在这种任务中，人们必须从许多刺激中识别出一个，这些刺激在单一维度上变化，并带有适当的标签。一项引人注目的发现是，人们无法可靠地识别超过七种不同的刺激。这一限制对我们对刺激进行分类的能力施加了严格的实际限制，并构成了认知理论的一个令人困惑的问题。该项目涉及五位数学心理学领域的顶尖研究人员的国际合作，旨在开发一个全面、综合的人类在绝对识别任务中的表现模型。

The ability to identify stimuli is fundamentally important in human cognition and is studied in absolute identification tasks, where people must identify one out of a number of stimuli, varying on a single dimension, with an appropriate label. A remarkable finding is that people cannot reliably identify more than about seven different stimuli. This limit imposes severe practical restrictions on our ability to categorise stimuli and constitutes a perplexing problem for cognitive theory. This project involves an international collaborative effort by five leading researchers in mathematical psychology to develop a comprehensive, integrative model of human performance in absolute identification tasks.