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2024

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cc by (c) Martínez, Manolo, 2024
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The Information-Processing Perspective on Categorization

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https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13411

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Categorization behavior can be fruitfully analyzed in terms of the trade-off between as high as possible faithfulness in the transmission of information about samples of the classes to be categorized, and as low as possible transmission costs for that same information. The kinds of categorization behaviors we associate with conceptual atoms, prototypes, and exemplars emerge naturally as a result of this trade-off, in the presence of certain natural constraints on the probabilistic distribution of samples, and the ways in which we measure faithfulness. Beyond the general structure of categorization in these circumstances, the same information-centered perspective can shed light on other, more concrete properties of human categorization performance, such as the results of certain prominent experiments on supervised categorization.

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Filosofia de la ment, Percepció, Intencionalitat (Filosofia)

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Philosophy of mind, Perception, Intentionality (Philosophy)

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MARTÍNEZ, Manolo. The Information-Processing Perspective on Categorization. Cognitive Science. 2024. ISSN 0364-0213. [consulted: 30 of May of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/229420

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