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Do features arise out of nothing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Adriaan Tijsseling
Adriaan Tijsseling
Affiliation:
Cognitive Sciences Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England, United Kingdom at@cogito.psy.soton.ac.uk www.soton.ac.uk/~coglab/coglab.html
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Abstract

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This commentary questions the validity of the claim that new features can be constructed out of nothing during categorization. A minimal set of fixed features based on what human beings are able to detect is sufficient for categorization.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998, pp. 38 - 39
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press