ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science

Children, Animals, Neurons, and Circuits: A Multifaceted Approach to Category Learning

Friday, March 8, 2019 · Paris, France

Cognitive Science

The symposium will feature recent advances in the study of categorization and examine how multiple disciplines and methodologies advance our understanding this important cognitive ability. The symposium includes four talks focusing on developmental, comparative, neurobiological, and computational approaches to categorization and is likely to generate broad interest among psychological scientists.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Vladimir SloutskyChair
    The Ohio State University

Presentations

  1. The Role of Selective Attention in the Development of CategorizationVladimir Sloutsky
  2. Selective and Distributed Attention in Human and Pigeon Category LearningLeyre Castro, Olivera Savic, Victor Navarro, Edward Wasserman, Vladimir Sloutsky
  3. Roles of the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex in Category Learning in RatsJohn Freeman, Jangjin Kim, Matthew Broschard, Bradley Love, Leyre Castro, Edward Wasserman
  4. Concept Learning As CompressionBradley Love