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Categorization, the basic cognitive process of arranging objects into categories, is a fundamental process in human and machine intelligence and is central to investigations and research in cognitive science. Until now, categorization has been approached from singular disciplinary perspectives with little overlap or communication between the disciplines involved (Linguistics, Psychology, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Anthropology). Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre have gathered together a stellar collection of contributors in this unique, ambitious attempt to bring together converging disciplinary and conceptual perspectives on this topic.
"Categorization is a key concept across the range of cognitive sciences, including linguistics and philosophy, yet hitherto it has been hard to find accounts that go beyond the concerns of one or two individual disciplines. The Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science provides just the sort of interdisciplinary approach that is necessary to synthesize knowledge from the different fields and provide the basis for future innovation."
Professor Bernard Comrie, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
"Anyone concerned with language, semantics, or categorization will want to have this encyclopedic collection."
Professor Eleanor Rosch, Dept of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science | |
| Release Date: 12-10-2005 | |
| Publisher: Elsevier Science |
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Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science
Chapter One
BRIDGING THE CATEGORY DIVIDEHENRI COHEN AND CLAIRE LEFEBVRE Université du Québec à Montréal
Contents
1. Introduction 2 2. Organization of the book 2 3. Major common themes 7 3.1. The notions of category and categorization 7 3.2. The nature of categories: Discrete, vague, or other 9 3.3. Are there modality effects on categories? 10 3.4. Are there universal categories? Are there innate categories? 11 4. Bridging the category divide 13 References 15
1. Introduction
Categorization is the mental operation by which the brain classifies objects and events. This operation is the basis for the construction of our knowledge of the world. It is the most basic phenomenon of cognition, and consequently the most fundamental problem of cognitive science. Cognitive science is concerned with the kinds of knowledge that underlie human cognition, the details of human cognitive processes, and the computational modeling of these processes.
This book presents the study of categories and the process of categorization as viewed through the lens of the founding disciplines of the cognitive sciences: cognitive anthropology, cognitive computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. The study of categorization has long been at the core of each of these discipline
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