Categorization of Natural Objects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5790643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Β Mervis (0000-0003-4206-6115), C B Mervis, Eleanor Rosch |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-115 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4308 • E-ISSN: 1545-2085 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.ps.32.020181.000513 |
| OpenAlex | W2177085946 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 289 |
| References cited | 22 |
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Comparisons of nominal degrees
Smart Subcategories
Why and How to Take the Fruit and Leave the Chaff
Identifying basic categories
Explaining basic categories
Doing without Concepts
User Acceptance of Computer Technology
Concepts and CategorizationWe are grateful to Alice Healy, Robert Proctor, Brian Rogosky, and Irving Weiner for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. This research was funded by National Science Foundation Reese grant DRL‐0910218, and Department of Education IES grant R305A1100060. Correspondence concerning this chapter should be addressed to [email protected] or Robert Goldstone, Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. Further information about the laboratory can be found at http
Cognitive Psychology
Heuristics and Biases
Ideals, central tendency, and frequency of instantiation as determinants of graded structure in categories.
Dimensional overlap
Norm theory
The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning.
The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence
Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning
Extensional versus intuitive reasoning
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The Mutual Exclusivity Bias in Children's Word Learning
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The Life Story Schema
What some concepts might not be
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Exemplification Theory
The Brain's concepts
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Determinants of Perceived Ease of Use
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Object categories and expertise
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A Model of the Antecedents of Perceived Ease of Use
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Embedded Scalars and Typicality
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Prototype Semantic Analysis of Abstract and Concrete Concepts Among Jordanian and American Students
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Une approche des genres textuels par la prototypicalité
Early Conceptual Knowledge About Food
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Toward Parsimony in Bias Research
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)
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Distributional signatures of superordinate nouns
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More than meets the gut
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The roots of music
Categories Are for Talking
Conceptual misunderstandings in mainstream scale construction
Fuzzy boundaries and the extension of object-words
Linking language and categorization in infancy
Determining that a label is kind-referring
On the genesis of abstract ideas.
How shall a thing be called?
Category norms of verbal items in 56 categories A replication and extension of the Connecticut category norms.
Semantic distance and the verification of semantic relations
Looking at upside-down faces.
Prototypes in Person Perception
Universals in color naming and memory.
Features of similarity.
Pattern recognition and categorization
Context theory of classification learning.
Cognitive representations of semantic categories.
Understanding natural language
On the Internal Structure of Perceptual and Semantic Categories11this Research Was Supported in Part by a Grant to the Author (Under Her Former Name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) From the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in Part by Funds Made Available to the Child Study Center of Brown University From the Grant Foundation and From the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in Part by Research Funds Made Available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9pf-429). I Wish to Thank Karl G. Heider for His Help in the Field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for Assistance in Carrying Out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt Who Assisted With Experiment 4. Experiment 4 Was Performed With Dr. Richard Millward While the Author Was a Research Associate at Brown University.
A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.
On the psychology of prediction.
Family resemblances
An Alternative to Checklist Theories of Meaning
Development of visual pattern classification in preschool children
Prototype Semantics
Category grading and taxonomic relations
Some General Principles of Biological and Non-Biological Folk Classification1
| Unique citing works | 289 |
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| Citations per year | 6,57 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2026 (45) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 274 |