How category learning affects object representations: not all morphspaces stretch alike.
How category learning affects object representations: not all morphspaces stretch alike.
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DOI:
10.1037/a0025836
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发表时间:
2012-07
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Palmeri, Thomas J.
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作者:
Folstein, Jonathan R.;Gauthier, Isabel;Palmeri, Thomas J.
How does learning to categorize objects affect how we visually perceive them? Behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging studies have tested the degree to which category learning influences object representations, with conflicting results. Some studies find that objects become more visually discriminable along dimensions relevant to previously learned categories, while others find no such effect. One critical factor we explore here lies in the structure of the morphspaces used in different studies. Studies finding no increase in discriminability often use “blended” morphspaces, with morphparents lying at corners of the space. By contrast, studies finding increases in discriminability use “factorial” morphspaces, defined by separate morphlines forming axes of the space. Using the same four morphparents, we created both factorial and blended morphspaces matched in pairwise discriminability. Category learning caused a selective increase in discriminability along the relevant dimension of the factorial space, but not in the blended space, and led to the creation of functional dimensions in the factorial space, but not in the blended space. These findings demonstrate that not all morphspaces stretch alike: Only some morphspaces support enhanced discriminability to relevant object dimensions following category learning. Our results have important implications for interpreting neuroimaging studies reporting little or no effect of category learning on object representations in the visual system: Those studies may have been limited by their use of blended morphspaces.
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