Cognition and Categorization

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Cognition and categorization /edited by Rosch, E. Part III studies concepts of representation that are basic to the previous discussions.

🔑 Key Findings

• and Lloyd, B., 1978 The papers in this book derive from a 1976 meeting sponsored by the Social Science Research Council to discuss the nature and principles of category formation.
• Part I contains 3 discussions of real-world categories, assuming that the people creating and using the systems can judge similarities between stimuli, perceive and process the attributes of a stimulus, and learn.
• Part II contains discussions of these 3 abilities, presenting a new theoretical approach to similarity, in which objects are viewed as collections of features, and similarity as a feature-matching process.

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