Keyword

prototype theory

Description: A theory of categorization in cognitive science and linguistics in which category membership is graded around representative or typical examples.

Primary topic: Categorization, perception, and language (26%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1402719

OpenAlex ID: keywords/prototype-theory

Context theory of classification learning.

1978 · Douglas L. Medin, Marguerite M. Schaffer · Psychological Review · 3,059

Attention and Self-Regulation : A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior

1981 · Charles S. Carver, Michael F. Scheier · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,579

Natural categories

1973 · Eleanor H. Rosch · Cognitive Psychology · 2,551

"Schema abstraction" in a multiple-trace memory model.

1986 · Douglas L. Hintzman · Psychological Review · 1,927

A Unified Account of the Effects of Distinctiveness, Inversion, and Race in Face Recognition

1991 · Tim Valentine · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A · 1,385

ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF PERCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES11This research was supported in part by a grant to the author (under her former name, Eleanor Rosch Heider) from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry # G67-392, in part by funds made available to the Child Study Center of Brown University from the Grant Foundation and from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Collaborative Project (Ph-43-68-13), and in part by research funds made available by the University of California at Berkeley (220 Grant #K9PF-429). I wish to thank Karl G. Heider for his help in the field in West Irian (Indonesian New Guinea), Dr. Robert Olton for assistance in carrying out Experiment 3, and Keith Burton, Randy Street, and Peter Lewitt who assisted with Experiment 4. Experiment 4 was performed with Dr. Richard Millward while the author was a research associate at Brown University.

1973 · ELEANOR H. ROSCH · Elsevier eBooks · 1,369

An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics

2013 · Friedrich Ungerer, Hans-Jorg Schmid · Routledge eBooks · 1,316

Concepts

1998 · Jerry A. Fodor · 1,275

Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization

1989 · Ulric Neisser · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,207

Concepts: Core Readings

1999 · Eric Margolis, Stephen Laurence · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,174

Concept of emotion viewed from a prototype perspective.

1984 · Beverley Fehr, James A. Russell · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,074

Linguistic Categorization

2003 · John R Taylor · 1,072

What some concepts might not be

1983 · Sharon Lee Armstrong, Lila R. Gleitman, et al. · Cognition · 1,055

Linguistic Categorization: Prototypes in Linguistic Theory

1989 · John R. Taylor · 1,053

Pattern recognition and categorization

1972 · Stephen K. Reed · Cognitive Psychology · 1,001

The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography

2008 · B T Sue Atkins, Michael Rundell · 948

The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition

2014 · Niedenthal, Paula, Wood, Adrienne, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 907

Prototypes in Person Perception

1979 · Nancy Cantor, Walter Mischel · Advances in experimental social psychology · 906

Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon. 2nd edn. By Jean Aitchison. Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xiii, 290.

1996 · Detlef Stark · Language · 875

On the adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of concepts

1981 · Daniel N. Osherson, Edward E. Smith · Cognition · 825

Doing without Concepts

2009 · Edouard Machery · Oxford University Press eBooks · 790

Prototype theory and compositionality

1995 · H Kamp · Cognition · 746

Furnishing the mind: concepts and their perceptual basis

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 703

Vocabulary, semantics, and language education

1995 · Evelyn Hatch, Cheryl Brown · 664

Furnishing the Mind

2002 · Jesse J. Prinz · The MIT Press eBooks · 657

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