Categorization, the basic cognitive process of arranging objects into categories, is a
fundamental process in human and machine intelligence and is central to investigations and …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview on the study of Categorization. There
is a synergy among the various areas associated with cognitive science that makes …

There are fewer distinctions in any language than there are distinct things in the universe. If,
therefore, languages are ways of representing the universe, a primary function of their …

We organisms are sensorimotor systems. Things in the world come into contact with our
sensory surfaces, and we interact with them based on what that sensorimotor contact …

A science-writer popularizing cognitive psychology in the NY Times Sunday Magazine
recently said," We human beings... are concept-making creatures: Unlike any other animal …

This research was supported in part by Grant No. BNS-8310445 from the National Science
Foun dation and by a grant from the Sloan Foundation to the University of California at …

Originally published in 1978, the papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored
by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category …

The main contribution of anthropology to cognitive science over the past three decades has
been the development of a deeper understanding of the nature of symbolic representation. A …

Issues related to concepts and categorization are nearly ubiquitous in psychology because
of people's natural tendency to perceive a thing as something. We have a powerful impulse …

This paper examines the semantic structure of English classificatory terms in the area of
concrete lexicon, linking differences in semantic structure with differences in grammatical …