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Parts, features, and expertise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

James Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44704 tanaka@occs.cs.oberlin.edu www.oberlin.edu/~psych/viscoglab.html

Abstract

Research in expert categorization is consistent with the Schyns et al. claim that functional features are determined by constraints imposed by the learning history of the categorizer and the demands of the categorization task. However, the expertise work also suggests that a distinction should be drawn between the categorizer's perceptions of the constituent parts of the object and its functional features. Although experts and novices may parse a domain-specific object into the same parts, their featural interpretations of those parts may differ significantly.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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