Knowledge, concepts, and categories
By: edited by Koen Lamberts and David Shanks.
Contributors: Lamberts, Koen.; Shanks, David R.
Edition: 1st MIT Press ed.
Series: Studies in cognition; Studies in cognition (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Mental representation.; Categorization (Psychology); Thought and thinking.
Description: 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 modelling, 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 of knowledge representation?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.