Model-based analyses
The results of the model-based analyses are shown in Table 3. Focus first on the participants trained with the classification task. As can be seen, the responses of most participants trained with rule-based category structures were best fit by an optimal model at the end of training.However, only one-third of the information-integration participants were best fit by an optimal model at the end of training (most of the participants in this condition approximated an information-integration strategy by using a conjunction rule). Interestingly, most of the rule-based participants adequately transferred their category knowledge to the same–different categorization task. However,