Concepts and conceptual development
Subtitle: ecological and intellectual factors in categorization
By: edited by Ulric Neisser.
Contributors: Neisser, Ulric.; Emory Cognition Project Conference (1st : 1984 : Emory University)
Series: Emory symposia in cognition ;; 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Categorization (Psychology) -- Congresses; Environmental psychology -- Congresses; Cognition -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Papers from the First Emory Cognition Project Conference, held. Oct. 11-12, 1984.
Table of contents: title: From direct perception to conceptual structure / Ulric Neisser; title: Category cohesiveness, theories, and cognitive archeology / Douglas L. Medin and William D. Wattenmaker; title: Cognitive models and prototype theory / George Lakoff; title: The instability of graded structure / Lawrence W. Barsalou; title: Decentralized control of categorization / Lee R. Brooks; title: Conceptual development and category structure / Frank C. Keil; title: Child-basic object categories and early lexical development / Carolyn B. Mervis; title: Scripts and categories / Robyn Fivush; title: How children constrain the possible meanings of words / Ellen M. Markman; title: The role of theories in a theory of concepts / Robert N. McCauley.