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Flexible categorization requires the creation of relational features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Peter F. Dominey
Peter F. Dominey
Affiliation:
Vision et Motricite, Inserm U94 and Institut des Sciences Cognitives CNRS UPR 9075, 69373 Lyon, [email protected]
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Abstract

Flexible categorization clearly requires an adaptive component, but at what level of representation? We have investigated categorization in sequence learning that requires the extraction of abstract rules, but no modification of sensory primitives. This motivates the need to make explicit the distinction between sensory-level “atomic” features as opposed to concept-level “abstract” features, and the proposal that flexible categorization probably relies on learning at the abstract feature level.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 23 - 24
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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