Categorical perception refers to the enhancement of perceptual sensitivity near category
boundaries, generally along dimensions that are informative about category membership …

Learned Categorical Perception (CP) occurs when the members of different categories
come to look more dissimilar (“between-category separation”) and/or members of the same …

The human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) plays a critical role in object recognition. Although
it is well established that visual experience shapes VTC object representations, the impact of …

Learning to categorize requires distinguishing category members from non-members by
detecting the features that covary with membership. Human subjects were trained to sort …

We investigated the dimensions defining mental shape space, by measuring shape
discrimination thresholds along “morph-spaces” defined by pairs of shapes. Given any two …

The representation of complex phenomena via combinations of simple discrete features is a
hallmark of human cognition. But it is not clear exactly how (or whether) discrete features …

Individuals learn to classify percepts effectively when the task is initially easy and then
gradually increases in difficulty. Some suggest that this is because easy-to-discriminate …

Introduction After category learning, same-category items tend to be rated as more similar
than items from different categories. Whether this category bias in similarity ratings reflects …

Visual category learning (VCL) involves detecting which features are most relevant for
categorization. VCL relies on attentional learning, which enables effectively redirecting …

The use of population encoding models has come to dominate the study of human vision,
serving as a primary tool for making inferences about neuroscience studies neural code …