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Where are object properties? In the world or in the mind?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

James Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074 tanaka@cs.oberlin.edu www.oberlin.edu/psych/labs/viscoglab.html

Abstract

This commentary questions whether the category properties of an object can be determined independent of the experience of the categorizer. Expertise studies have shown that the judged properties of an object can differ from expert to novice and from expert to expert. The expertise findings indicate that object properties exist not only in the world, but in the mind of the categorizer.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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