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Learning visual appearance from language is mediated by causal intuitive theories

2025-07-14

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<p>What and how do people learn about visual appearance from language? We test the hypothesis that in the absence of sensory evidence, people born blind use abstract causal knowledge to infer object appearance. Congenitally blind (n=19) and sighted adults (n=59) reported how many colors two types of artifacts were likely to have: artifacts for which having many colors is intended to facilitate function (n=30, e.g....

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Literature Corpus work: 861fb8be-ede0-5b99-8f28-89cf6d938fb6
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/b6ncv_v1

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