{"pk":27733,"title":"You can sweat the small stuff, too: Abstraction subordinates perceptual salience to the larger goal in a category learning paradigm","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Three experiments investigated the role of conceptual\nabstraction in category learning. We found that people in a\nlow-level mindset over-weighted global features in\nclassifying novel exemplars whereas those in a high-level\nmindset did not (Experiments 1 and 3). The effect was on the\nlearning process, independent of perceptual response\npreference (Experiment 3) and occurred despite evidence of\nperceptual global dominance for all groups during learning\n(Experiments 2 and 3). We conclude that abstraction can\nsubordinate perceptual salience to the larger goal, integrating\ndiscrete encounters into a comprehensive representation of the\nunderlying structure.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"abstraction"},{"word":"category learning"},{"word":"Global precedence"},{"word":"Holistic primacy"},{"word":"Configural processing"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cx7g4nr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Bosch","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Yaacov","middle_name":"","last_name":"Trope","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""},{"first_name":"Gregory","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Murphy","name_suffix":"","institution":"New York University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27733/galley/17373/download/"}]}