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Individual Differences In Categorization, Urooj Anees Aug 2022

Individual Differences In Categorization, Urooj Anees

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The appearance of individual differences used to be regarded as noise in psychological experiments, but is slowly becoming a tool used to enhance and solidify findings in various fields of cognitive psychology. This presentation aims to very briefly discuss individual differences and categorization and what questions future research could aim to answer.


Neural Representation Of Stimulus Category Membership Across Modalities, Carson Rumble-Tricker Aug 2021

Neural Representation Of Stimulus Category Membership Across Modalities, Carson Rumble-Tricker

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Category learning is a process through which common features among category members, distinctive features among non-members, or even both, are identified (Hammer et al., 2009). This process is a critical aspect of cognition and can guide decision making and information inference. Furthermore, category learning is involved among a large number of stimuli, including visual (Folstein et al., 2013), auditory (Ley et al., 2012), olfactory (Qu et al., 2016), and multisensory (Viganòa, Borghesani, & Piazza, 2021) stimuli.

The aim of this systematic review is to determine and qualitatively analyze studies that investigate the changes in the neural representations of stimuli that …