Much of children's knowledge is derived not from their direct experiences with the
environment but rather from the input of others. However, until recently, the focus in studies …

steels & belpaeme's (s&b's) simulations contain all the right components, but they are put
together wrongly. color categories are unrepresentative of categories in general and …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

Let's start from scratch in thinking about what memory is for, and consequently, how it works.
Suppose that memory and conceptualization work in the service of perception and action. In …

Classical informal reasoning “fallacies,” for example, begging the question or arguing from
ignorance, while ubiquitous in everyday argumentation, have been subject to little …

Five experiments provide evidence for a class of 'dual character concepts.'Dual character
concepts characterize their members in terms of both (a) a set of concrete features and (b) …

Over the past several decades, psychological essentialism has been an important topic of
study, incorporating research from multiple areas of psychology, philosophy and linguistics …

One of the most striking qualities of living things is their constancy over variation, both
variation over time and variation over individuals. Thus a newborn infant becomes an adult …

The psychological study of concepts has two main goals: explaining how people's
knowledge of categories such as tables or cats enables them to classify or recognize …

One of the major problems in categorization research is the lack of systematic ways of
constraining feature weights. We propose one method of operationalizing feature centrality …