?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Categorization+creates+functional+features&rft.creator=Schyns%2C+Philippe+G.&rft.creator=Rodet%2C+Luc&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Many+theories+of+object+recognition+and+categorization+claim+that+complex+objects+are+represented+in+terms+of+characteristic+features.+The+origin+of+these+features+has+been+neglected+in+theories+of+object+categorization.+Do+they+form+a+fixed+and+independent+set+that+exists+before+experience+with+objects%2C+or+are+features+progressively+extracted+and+developed+as+an+organism+categorizes+its+world%3F+This+paper+maintains+that+features+can+be+flexibly+learned%2C+as+a+consequence+of+categorizing+and+representing+objects.+All+three+experiments+reported+in+this+paper+used+categories+of+unfamiliar+computer-synthesized+two-dimensional+objects+(%22Martian+cells%22).+The+results+showed+that+varying+order+of+category+learning+induced+the+creation+of+different+features+that+changed+the+perceptual+appearance+and+the+featural+representation+of+identical+category+exemplars.+Network+simulations+supported+a+flexible%2C+rather+than+a+fixed+feature+interpretation+of+the+data.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F713%2F2%2Fcells.ps&rft.identifier=++Schyns%2C+Philippe+G.+and+Rodet%2C+Luc++(1997)+Categorization+creates+functional+features.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F713%2F