People learn new categories on a daily basis, and the study of category learning is a major
topic of research in cognitive science. However, most prior work has focused on how people …

Abstract Models of category learning can take two different approaches to representing the
relationship between objects and categories. The generative approach solves the …

Category learning not only depends upon perceptual and semantic representations; it also
leads to the generation of these representations. We describe two series of experiments that …

Categories are learned in many ways, but studies of category learning have generally
focused on classification learning. This focus may limit the understanding of categorization …

Generalization to new examples is an essential aspect of categorization. However, recent
category learning research has not focused on how people generalize their category …

Category learning not only depends upon perceptual and semantic representations; it also
leads to the generation of these representations. We describe two series of experiments that …

JOHN K. KRUSCHKE dozens of exposures. It could also be disastrous if the learning about
poisonous mushrooms erased still-valid knowledge about edible mushrooms (French, 1999; …

Seven studies examined how people represent, access, and make inferences about a rich
real-world category domain, foods. The representation of the category was assessed by …

Learning to categorize objects in the world is more than just learning the specific facts that
characterize individual categories. We can also learn more abstract knowledge about how …

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 …