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Perceptual Categorization

Perceptual Categorization is a cognitive process within perceptual development that involves the grouping of sensory stimuli into meaningful classes based on shared perceptual features, distinguishing it from conceptual categorization by relying primarily on bottom-up sensory input rather than abstract knowledge or semantic inference.

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Context theory of classification learning.

Douglas L. Medin, Marguerite M. Schaffer · Psychological Review · 1978 · 3K citations

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Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development

Eleanor J. Gibson · Leonardo · 1973 · 2.5K citations

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Attention, similarity, and the identification-categorization relationship.

Robert M. Nosofsky · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1986 · 2.2K citations

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Predictive coding under the free-energy principle

Karl Friston, Stefan J. Kiebel · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge

Alex Martin, Cheri L. Wiggs, Leslie G. Ungerleider et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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    Paul C. Quinn

    University of Delaware, United States

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    F. Gregory Ashby

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

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    W. Todd Maddox

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

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    Robert M. Nosofsky

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

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    Thomas J. Palmeri

    Vanderbilt University, United States

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    Bloomington, United States

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    Paris, France

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    Leuven, Belgium

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    London, United Kingdom

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