“I suggest that the psychophysical function that maps physical parameter space into a species' psychological space has been shaped over evolutionary history so that consequential regions for that species, although variously shaped, are not consistently elongated or flattened in particular directions.”

Source: "Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science," 1987, p. 1319

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