Do people from different cultures have different categories and concepts? What aspects of
the way a person thinks depend on the culture in which one grew up? In this chapter we …

A reliable system for visual learning and recognition should enable a selective treatment of
individual parts of input data and should successfully deal with noise and occlusions. These …

Prior empirical research suggests that consumers perceive pioneers as more prototypical
(ie, representative) of their product categories than me-too followers. This prototypicality …

Ontologies are being developed in many geoscientific domains. They are typically
populated with two types of concepts: upper-level concepts that apply across many or all …

T his volume is concerned with spatial development, an adaptively important aspect of
cognitive function. Coding the locations of objects and places (food supplies, one's home …

This thesis investigates the psychological implications of prolongation, a structural
phenomenon of tonal music, which is described in the musicological literature as an …

The authors use the “uncanny valley theory” as a diagnostic lens to better understand
consumers' perceptions of humanlike consumer robots in different contexts. The results …

Like adults, children use categories as a basis for inductive inference. Having learned that
some property is true of some individual (eg,“My dog, Magic, likes marshmallows”), a child …

Disparate, mutually incompatible theories of categorization are widespread in cognitive
psychology. Although there are various formal results connecting pairs of these theories, the …