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Feature creation as a byproduct of attentional processing

Annie VinterPierre Perruchet

subject

Behavioral NeuroscienceCommunicationNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyPhysiologybusiness.industryFeature (computer vision)Computer sciencePattern recognitionArtificial intelligencebusiness

description

Attributing the creation of new features to categorization requirements implies that the exemplars displayed are correctly assigned to their category. This constraint limits the scope of Schyns et al.'s proposal to supervised learning. We present data suggesting that this constraint is unwarranted and we argue that feature creation is better thought of as a byproduct of the attentional, on-line processing of incoming information.

https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x9844010x