I examine the origins of ordinary racial thinking. In doing so, argue against thesis that it is byproduct a unique module (e.g. folk-biology module). Instead, defend pluralistic according to which different forms thinking are driven by distinct mechanisms, each with their own etiology. begin belief visible features diagnostic race. mechanisms responsible for face recognition have an important, ...

The extent to which object identification is influenced by the background of the scene is still controversial. On the one hand, the global context of a scene might be considered as an ultimate representation, suggesting that object processing is performed almost systematically before scene context analysis. Alternatively, the gist of a scene could be extracted sufficiently early to be able to i...

The aim of this paper is to study the interactions between categorization and decision making. While these two fields have mostly evolved separately, we introduce a model for categorization processes that is derived from a general decision-making heuristics. Such a model is able to account for both tasks involved in categorization, i.e. classification and category construction. One of the most ...

We propose a new approach to text categorization based upon the ideas of summarization. It combines word-based frequency and position method to get categorization knowledge from the title field only. Experimental results indicate that summarization-based categorization can achieve acceptable performance on Reuters news corpus.

Early perceptual processing capabilities are likely to contribute to the categorization of lexical vs. grammatical words by newborns. This lexical categorization could be performed by detecting differences in the prosodic structure of these word categories. We demonstrated that this lexical categorization could be performed using many prosodic cues (duration, F0, energy and formants) automatica...

we requested the user to reclassify documents that were misclassified by the system. Results show that despite the subjective nature of human categorization, automatic document categorization methods correlate well with subjective, personal categorization, and the LVQ method outperforms the SOM. The reclassification process revealed an interesting pattern: About 40% of the documents were classi...

Students’ categorization of physics problems reflects their expertise in problem solving. We conducted a pseudolongitudinal study to investigate the development of students’ categorization ability. Over 250 Chinese students from grade 10 to grade 12 were asked to categorize 20 problems of kinematics and mechanics into suitable categories based on the similarity of solutions. We compared the cat...

Early in development, humans exhibit the ability to form categories and overlook differences for the sake of generality. This ability poses several important questions: How does categorization arise? What processes underlie category formation? And how are categories mentally represented? We argue that the development of categorization is grounded in perceptual and attentional mechanisms capable...

The European union funding for job creation and a sustainable and healthy EU economy and environment is channelled through the five EU structural and investment funds. Although there is EU categorization system for EU projects, EU countries apply their own different categorization systems. Some EU countries already apply European categorization system, but many do not. As a result, many project...