Categories keep us alive, says Vladimir Sloutsky

10/31/22 • -1 min

Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences

Vladimir Sloutsky, professor of psychology, researches conceptual development and interrelationships between cognition and language. His most recent publication describes how humans can learn about categories without explicit teaching.

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