Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

At first glance, conceptual representations (eg, our internal notion of the object “lemon”)
seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon …

People construct ad hoc categories to achieve goals. For example, constructing the category
of “things to sell at a garage sale” can be instrumental to achieving the goal of selling …

A category exists whenever two or more distinguishable objects or events are treated
equivalently. This equivalent treatment may take any number of forms, such as labeling …

This book takes the researcher step by step through problem selection, literature search,
research protocols, and the publication process. Concrete examples throughout reinforce …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

In this chapter I propose that frames provide the fundamental representation of knowledge in
human cognition. In the first section, I raise problems with the feature list representations …

A discussion of the difficulties of prototype theories for describing compositional meaning
motivates three experiments that inquire how well-defined concepts fare under paradigms …

Construes performance appraisal as the outcome of a dual-process system of evaluation
and decision making whereby attention, categorization, recall, and information integration …

It is proposed that concepts contain two types of properties. Context-independent properties
are activated by the word for a concept on all occasions. The activation of these properties is …