ICPS 2023 · Categorization across fields: Insights from learning, cognition, and perception [symposium]

Eline Van Geert, Jonas Zaman, & Steven Verheyen
International Convention of Psychological Science 2023 · March 9, 2023 · Brussels, Belgium

Categorization pervades many psychological domains. In perception, identical stimuli are experienced differently depending on their categorization. In cognition, inferring a concept’s properties is category-based. And in classical conditioning, participants categorize stimuli as harmful or safe. In this symposium, we connect researchers from these fields to inspire more cross-domain interactions.

Speakers

• Jonas Zaman: The idiosyncratic nature of how individuals perceive, represent, and remember their surroundings and its impact on learning-based generalization
• Matías Osta-Vélez: The role of categorization in inductive reasoning
• Eline Van Geert: Pre-existing categorization diminishes attractive and repulsive temporal history effects on perception
• Steven Verheyen: A probabilistic model of aesthetic appreciation