The role of category label in adults' inductive reasoning

  • Authors:

  • Xuyan Wang;Zhoujun Long;Sanxia Fan;Weiyan Yu;Haiyan Zhou;Yulin Qin

  • Affiliations:

  • International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China;International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China;International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China;International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China;International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China;International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, China, Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, China, Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Venue:
  • BI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Brain Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This study focused on two different views about the role of category label in inductive reasoning: perceptional-similarity-based and conception-based views. We used an inductive reasoning task, possibility judgment for a feature of artificial insect, to record behavioral performance in experiment 1 and brain activity with ERP in experiment 2. Two factors were manipulated: visual similarity of artificial insect, and whether with same label or not. The result suggests that the conception-based view is not supported here. The category label may enhance the perceptual characteristics, since labels have same visual and sound features; but it is hard to deny the role of conceptual information contained by a label to affect the inductive reasoning.