@inproceedings{ec2ce327f4f447f0a773c909ca83627f,
title = "You can sweat the small stuff, too: Abstraction subordinates perceptual salience to the larger goal in a category learning paradigm",
abstract = "Three experiments investigated the role of conceptual abstraction in category learning. We found that people in a low-level mindset over-weighted global features in classifying novel exemplars whereas those in a high-level mindset did not (Experiments 1 and 3). The effect was on the learning process, independent of perceptual response preference (Experiment 3) and occurred despite evidence of perceptual global dominance for all groups during learning (Experiments 2 and 3). We conclude that abstraction can subordinate perceptual salience to the larger goal, integrating discrete encounters into a comprehensive representation of the underlying structure.",
keywords = "Abstraction, Category Learning, Configural processing, Global precedence, Holistic primacy",
author = "Bosch, {David A.} and Yaacov Trope and Gregory Murphy",
note = "Funding Information: We thank four anonymous reviewers from CogSci 2018 for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018. All rights reserved.; 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Changing Minds, CogSci 2018 ; Conference date: 25-07-2018 Through 28-07-2018",
year = "2018",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "148--153",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018",
}