The study of mental representation is a central concern in
contemporary cognitive psychology. "Knowledge, Concepts, and
Categories" is unusual in that it presents key conclusions from
across the different subfields of cognitive psychology. Readers
will find data from many areas, including developmental psychology,
formal modeling, neuropsychology, connectionism, and philosophy.
The difficulty of penetrating the fundamental operations of the
mind is reflected in a number of ongoing debates discussed -- for
example, do distinct brain systems underlie the acquisition and
storage of implicit and explicit knowledge, or can the evidence be
accommodated by a single-system account of knowledge
representation?
The book can be divided into three distinct parts. Chapters 1
through 5 offer an introduction to the field; each presents a
systematic review of a significant aspect of research on concepts
and categories. Chapters 6 through 9 are concerned primarily with
issues related to the taxonomy of human knowledge. Finally,
Chapters 10 through 12 discuss formal models of categorization and
function learning.
Contributors: Jerome R. Busemeyer, Eunhee Byun, Nick Chater,
Paul De Boeck, Edward L. Delosh, Thomas Goschke, Ulrike Hahn, James
Hampton, Evan Heit, Barbara Knowlton, Koen Lamberts, Mary E.
Lassaline, Mark A. McDaniel, George L. Murphy, Larissa K.
Samuelson, David Shanks, Linda B. Smith, Gert Storms, Bruce W.A.
Whittlesea.
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