Context is important but it does not explain everything: A comment on "Matching performance and the similarity structure of the stimulus set" by Crist.
States that W. B. Crist's (see record 1982-07058-001) experiments provide convincing evidence of the importance of context in letter-matching tasks and demonstrate how the reporting of central tendency measures on data aggregated over different stimuli can lead to an oversimplified view of the processes involved. However, his rationale for the experiments and theoretical treatment of results are criticized as unnecessarily polarizing the analytic and contextual views of perceptual matching and as overstating the case for context as a sufficient explanatory construct. (14 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)