Feature development, object concepts, and the scope slip.
Schyns et al.'s (1998) target article raises a conflict between the need for a fixed functional architecture in an explanatory cognitive science and the need for a system to learn to detect new features. This conflict can be resolved by avoiding the scope slip in which properties of objects are erroneously viewed as being properties of their representations.
Dawson
Michael R W
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Biological Computation Project, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 2P9 mdawson@psych.ualberta.ca www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike.