title: Symbolic versus associative learning.
abstract: Ramscar and colleagues (2010, this volume) describe the "feature-label-order" (FLO) effect on category learning and characterize it as a constraint on symbolic learning. I argue that FLO is neither a constraint on symbolic learning in the sense of "learning elements of a symbol system" (instead, it is an effect on nonsymbolic, association learning) nor is it, more than any other constraint on category learning, a constraint on symbolic learning in the sense of "solving the symbol grounding problem."
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Hummel