Puneeth C.

How do we learn new object categories? Two mechanisms have been proposed for category learning: (1) Low-level associations between each object and its category label and (2) Learning of a high-level rule that allows generalization to novel instances. Although there is evidence that associations and rules are both acquired during learning, it is not known whether the two processes interact or not. Here, we addressed this fundamental question by characterizing how humans learn a novel face category. We identi