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Schematic illustration of how motivational state and conceptual knowledge can influence visual processing. The top portion is an illustration of categorical perception: the donuts are perceived in terms of their category membership, with individual differences between each donut being abstracted over. If the perceiver is motivated to individuate each of the donuts, then categorical perception will be overridden and the characteristics that distinguish each donut will be highlighted.
