Perceptual abstraction.

Perception puts us in touch with highly determinate properties of objects, such as fine‐grained color shades and detailed surface shapes. However, most of our immediate perceptual judgments concern more abstract properties, such as the property of being a dog, or of being red simpliciter. So, how do...

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Published in:	Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 161 - 194
Main Authors:	Westfall, Mason, Green, E. J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Mar2026
Subjects:	Visual perception Conceptualism Scientific observation Perceptual learning Conceptual structures Attention
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost