The distributional properties of exemplars affect category learning and generalization

Abstract What we learn about the world is affected by the input we receive. Many extant category learning studies use uniform distributions as input in which each exemplar in a category is presented the same number of times. Another common assumption on input used in previous studies is that exempla...

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Main Authors: Paulo F. Carvalho, Chi-hsin Chen, Chen Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90743-0