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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Horst, J.S., Bird, C.M. Conceptual systems align to aid concept learning. Nat Mach Intell 2, 92–93 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0145-x
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