The empirical study of belief is emerging at a rapid clip, uniting work from all corners of
cognitive science. Reliance on belief in understanding and predicting behavior is …

Psychological studies of categorization often assume that all concepts are of the same
general kind, and are operated on by the same kind of categorization process. In this paper …

Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past
experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

Analogy and similarity are often assumed to be distinct psychological processes. In contrast
to this position, the authors suggest that both similarity and analogy involve a process of …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

We argue that it is important to distinguish between categorization as object recognition and
as naming because the relation between the two may not be as straightforward as has often …

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

In the previous chapter, we have proposed that fluency increases with typicality and
decreases with conceptual ambiguity (postulate 11.2). When the object has been …

The effect of typicality of category exemplars on naming was investigated using a single
subject experimental design across participants and behaviors in 4 patients with fluent …