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How we draw and recognize things that don’t exist

2026-04-23

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How do we make sense of something we’ve never seen before? Classifying objects into superordinate classes like ‘animal’ is a key step in interpreting novel experiences, but is challenging because radically different items (e.g., octopus, rabbit) must somehow be grouped together. In general, no single feature is shared by all members. We reasoned that to classify or imagine novel items from outside the distribution...

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Literature Corpus work: 09f2a02a-3009-5e13-be33-262a7bca6b84
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.22.720107

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