Open Peer Commentary Schyns, P. G., et al.: The development of features in object concepts
Flexible categorization requires the creation of relational features
Peter F. Dominey a1 a1 Vision et Motricite, Inserm U94 and Institut des Sciences Cognitives CNRS UPR 9075, 69373 Lyon, France
dominey@lyon151.inserm.fr
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.
