How Our Brains Create Categories: A Look Inside the Mind

Our brains have an incredible ability to organise information into meaningful categories, allowing us to make sense of the world around us. However, this categorisation process can also bias how we perceive and remember this world. Dr Dagmar Zeithamova and her team at the University of Oregon are uncovering how our brains form category-biased representations, even when we’re focused on learning about individual examples. Their work sheds new light on the neural mechanisms underlying concept formation and how categories shape our perceptions.