The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Vanja Kovic, University of Novi Sad
on
The effect of labelling on category learning
Date: Friday, March 23, 2012 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34., Room G15
ABSTRACT:
I will present a set of studies which explore categories formation in adults. The main behavioural finding is that given a set of new objects, and equal experience categorizing them, people who learn names for the categories are better able to categorize them. Furthermore, ERP studies demonstrate that specific labels can advance categorisation even further when there is sound-symbolic congruence between label and object properties. Taken together, these categorisation studies demonstrate that labels can indeed facilitate category learning, but also that specific labels can advanced categorisation even further by highlighting featural similarities between labels and objects.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u. 30-34) !