We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

This paper surveys locally weighted learning, a form of lazy learning and memory-based
learning, and focuses on locally weighted linear regression. The survey discusses distance …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the …

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling
representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

In Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, Frank C. Keil provides a coherent account
of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the …

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 …

People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and
depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth …

Research and theory on categorization and conceptual structure have recently undergone
two major shifts. The first shift is from the assumption that concepts have defining properties …