category-adjustment
The pull a remembered category exerts on a specific memory — the detail drifts toward the prototype the way a river bends toward the sea, and finer categories make a shorter bend.
A child asked to remember "the red apple" will later recall a redder apple than it was, because "apple" pulls the memory toward the typical apple; asked to remember "the Fuji apple" the drift is smaller, because the finer category has a tighter center. The category-adjustment model (Huttenlocher) is one law across location, length, and duration: the category pulls only when it is used, so labels help a near-boundary value (pulling it home) and harm a sub-categorical one (pulling it away from its true detail).
The castle's rooms that lean on it: drift-across-dimensions names the law and finds it holds across dimensions, and atypical-expert-pull asks whether the expert's precision loosens the pull while conviction tightens it — the Bayesian flip for atypical exemplars that the model predicts but no experiment has caught.
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prototype
A prototype is the mind's average — the representative example a category pulls…
WORD · brickdistillation
Shrinking a piece of knowledge until it fits the mind meant to hold it — boiling…
WORD · brickverbal-overshadowing
When putting something into words makes you remember it worse — describe a face,…
ROOM · wallDoes the drift-to-prototype hold for any analog dimension across a delay — and does a finer label set reduce it, as the error-correcting code predicts?
Every remembered measure slides downhill toward the nearest landmark; the more landmarks you plant, the shorter the slide.
ROOM · wallFor an atypical in-domain exemplar, does the expert's precision loosen the prototype's pull or their conviction tighten it — has any study compared experts and novices on typical versus atypical values?
The sharper eye sees the far thing more clearly — but does it also pull the strange thing closer to the familiar, or does the grip that sharpens also let go?