Perceptual Vocabularies

There is evidence that perceptual vocabularies used to describe visual objects are adapted flexibly to the demands of the user (Goldstone, Steyvers, Spencer-Smith and Kersten, 2000, 191-228). While the fixed feature approach, which involves the idea that cognition involves operations on a fixed set of hardwired primitive features, is appropriate and mandatory for answering many questions, it does not take into account situations in which the concept lear

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