Categorization is one of the fundamental building blocks of cognition, and the study of
categorization is notable for the extent to which formal modeling has been a central and …

Listeners must accomplish two complementary perceptual feats in extracting a message
from speech. They must discriminate linguistically-relevant acoustic variability and …

A variety of studies have demonstrated that organizing stimuli into categories can affect the
way the stimuli are perceived. We explore the influence of categories on perception through …

Learning to categorize objects can transform how they are perceived, causing relevant
perceptual dimensions predictive of object category to become enhanced. For example, an …

Infants segment words from fluent speech during the same period when they are learning
phonetic categories, yet accounts of phonetic category acquisition typically ignore …

A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

Visual categories group together different objects as the same kinds of thing. We review a
selection of research on how visual categories are learned. We begin with a guide to visual …

The ability to categorize is fundamental to cognitive development. Some categories emerge
effortlessly and rapidly while others can take years of experience to acquire. Children with …

Feedback has been shown to be effective in shifting attention across perceptual cues to a
phonological contrast in speech perception (Francis, Baldwin & Nusbaum, 2000). However …

In this article, we review recent work that shows how learning to categorize objects changes
how those objects are represented in the mind and the brain. After category learning, visual …