Featural relations in concept learning and generalization

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 261; p. 106147
• Main Authors: Wetzel, Matthew, Kurtz, Kenneth J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.08.2025
• Subjects: Adult; Categorization; Concept Formation - physiology; Concept learning; Female; Generalization; Generalization, Psychological - physiology; Humans; Learning - physiology; Male; Relational cognition; Young Adult; Concept learning; Generalization; Relational cognition; Categorization

The feature-based concept learning literature has focused primarily on how subjects learn mappings from a set of stimulus features to a set of category labels. However, there are real-world concepts that cannot be predicted by feature values independently, but instead depend on knowledge or awarenes...