Costs and benefits in perceptual categorization.

No Representation without Taxation: The Costs and Benefits of Learning to Conceptualize the Environment

How do the ways in which we learn influence our cognitive representations of what we learn? We show that in language learning tasks, the process of learning to conceptualize and categorize perceptual input shapes how that input gets represented in mind. In representation, there seems to be a give and take between veridicality and completeness, on the one hand, and discrimination and accurate ca...

Prevention under the Affordable Care Act (ACA): Has the ACA Overpromised and under Delivered?; Comment on “Interrelation of Preventive Care Benefits and Shared Costs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)”

This policy brief discusses preventive care benefits and cost-sharing included in health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) legislation and highlights some consequences to Americans and the country in terms of healthcare costs and value.

Processing of perceptual information is more robust than processing of conceptual information in preschool-age children: evidence from costs of switching.

Is processing of conceptual information as robust as processing of perceptual information early in development? Existing empirical evidence is insufficient to answer this question. To examine this issue, 3- to 5-year-old children were presented with a flexible categorization task, in which target items (e.g., an open red umbrella) shared category membership with one test item (e.g., a folded um...

What is the Ground? Continuous Maps for Grounding Perceptual Primitives

Analysis of the Symbol Grounding Problem has typically focused on the nature of symbols and how they tie to perception without focusing on the actual qualities of what the symbols are to be grounded in. We formalize the requirements of the ground and propose a basic model of grounding perceptual primitives to regions in perceptual space that demonstrates the significance of continuous mapping a...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits