New-feature learning: How common is it?
Category
Journal Article
Authors
French, R. M., Weaver, M.
Year
1998
Title
New-feature learning: How common is it?
Journal / book / conference
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Abstract
The fixed-feature viewpoint Schyns et al. are opposing is not a widely held theoretical position but rather a working assumption of cognitive psychologists - and thus a straw man. We accept their demonstration of new-feature acquisition, but question its ubiquity in category learning. We suggest that new-feature learning (at least in adults) is rarer and more difficult than the authors suggest.
Issue
1
Volume
21
Pages
26