Fuzzy Logical Approach to Perception of Dot Numerosity

Abstract

The present study utilized a fuzzy logical approach for understanding human perception or judgments of dot numerosity. In Exp. 1 subjects were required to view dot patterns and to judge the truthfulness of the single and combined statements which asserted that the number of dots was large. The results indicated that (a) the rules based on the minimum and maximum truthfulness of the component statements best approximate subjective conjunction and disjunction about dot numerosity, when subjects kept the operations of the standard logic system in mind, (b) When the subjects based their judgments on perceptive impression, their judgments were best fitted by the multiplicative form.