Basic objects in natural categories

1976/07/01 by Eleanor Rosch, Carolyn Β. Mervis, Carolyn B Mervis +5 · 5,543 citations
Psychology · #Abstraction #Artificial intelligence #Categorization, perception, and language #Child and Animal Learning Development #Class (philosophy) #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Concept learning #Epistemology #Geography #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics #Natural (archaeology) #Natural language processing #Noun #Object (grammar) #Perception #Psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/0010-0285(76)90013-x

published in Cognitive Psychology 8(3), 382-439 (Elsevier BV)

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