The term systematic review is used to refer to a specific methodology of research, developed
in order to gather and evaluate the available evidence pertaining to a focused topic. It …

Past research on concepts has focused almost exclusively on noun-object concepts. This
paper discusses recent research demonstrating that useful distinctions may be made among …

Scholars have long debated how rigor can be achieved in qualitative analysis. To answer
this question, we need to better understand how theory is generated from data. Qualitative …

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles,
rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory textbook surveys the …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

Everyday, people flexibly perform different categorizations of common faces, objects and
scenes. Intuition and scattered evidence suggest that these categorizations require the use …

Conceptual features differ in how mentally tranformable they are. A robin that does not eat is
harder to imagine than a robin that does not chirp. We argue that features are immutable to …

Abstract Concepts can be organized by their members' similarities, forming a kind (eg,
animal), or by their external relations within scenes or events (eg, cake and candles). This …