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Conceptual systems align to aid concept learning

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Our understanding of concepts can differ depending on the modality — such as vision, text or speech — through which we learn this concept. A recent study uses computational modelling to demonstrate how conceptual understanding aligns across modalities.

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Fig. 1: Independent conceptual systems were assembled on the basis of unsupervised learning of co-occurrence of objects in images, written text and short audio files.

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