The perceptual effects of learning object categories that predict perceptual goals.

ABSTRACT: In classic category learning studies, subjects typically learn to assign items to 1 of 2 categories, with no further distinction between how items on each side of the category boundary should be treated. In real life, however, we often learn categories that dictate further processing goals, for instance, with objects in only 1 category requiring further individuation. Using methods from category learning and perceptual expertise, we studied the perceptual consequences of experience with objects in tasks that rely on attention to different dimensions in different parts of the space. In 2 experiments, subjects first learned to categorize complex objects from a single morphspace into 2 categories based on 1 morph dimension, and then learned to perform a different task, either naming or a loca

SUBMITTER: Van Gulick AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4143460 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature