Learned Categorical Perception (CP) occurs when the members of different categories come to look more dissimilar (“between-category separation”) and/or members of the same category come to look more similar (“within-category compression”) after a new category has been learned. To measure learned CP and its physiological correlates we compared dissimilarity judgments and Event Related Potentials (ERPs) before and after learning to sort multi-featured visual textures into two categories by trial and error wit…