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 …

This chapter develops an integrated perspective on language, literacy, and the human mind,
a perspective that holds important implications for the nature of reading, both cognitively and …

Prior research often emphasized a stimulus-based or bottom-up view of product category
representations. In contrast, we emphasize a more purposeful, top-down perspective and …

A literal base theory of figurative language holds that figurative claims are modeled on literal
forms of expression. They use surface features of literal forms but relax their constraints. We …

The tendency among adults to sort items into taxonomic and thematic categories was
examined in two experiments. Past demonstrations of adults' preference for taxonomic …

In three perceptual classification experiments involving ill-defined category structures,
extreme prototype enhancement effects were observed in which prototypes were classified …

This paper focuses on the way in which idioms are mentally represented and how they are
processed in on-line comprehension. The aim is to develop an account of how hearers …

Appropriate as a textbook for courses in cognitive psychology or social cognition, Everyday
Thinking reviews the rapidly growing literature on cognition in naturalistic settings. It differs …

This article examines conceptually the relationship between timestyle—the customary
manner in which one perceives and thinks about time—and leisure decisions. The authors …

Educational progressivism is built around a few core ideas. Each of these embodies a
double-sidedness that has historically invited specific criticisms, many of which are still in …