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The Common Format Hypothesis: The Central Form Integrates Causal Information from Different Domains into a Common Format

2025-05-05

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<p>This paper investigates the structure of human concepts, proposing and testing the Common Format Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, all concepts share a central form—a domain-general structure that encodes their conceptual identity—while causal knowledge remains domain-specific. Across three experiments, participants learned about novel categories and their properties, with properties introduced either a...

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Literature Corpus work: 0afcb922-c63c-5f78-b11b-9804012dc918
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/qzhkt_v1

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