Natural categories.

Rosch, E. H. (1973). Natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 0285(73), 328-350.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1973

DOI

10.1016/0010-0285(73)90017-0

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90017-0

Cited from

data_science, philosophy, psychology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Archetype
  • Archetypes capture this compression: rather than analyze each story as a novel configuration, the analyst (and the audience) maps it to known archetypes and immediately imports the expectations, recognition cues, and affective baselines associated with those archetypes.

    This sourceFoundational work on prototype theory and graded category membership; shows human categorization operates via prototypes rather than necessary-and-sufficient features.

• Boundary
  • Rosch's work on natural categories

    This sourcedemonstrates empirically that natural categories are organized around perceptually salient prototypes with graded (not sharp) membership; some instances are prototypical, others peripheral.

• Segmentation and Boundary Drawing
  • Classification is the assignment; segmentation is the construction of the target structure itself, a distinction grounded in Rosch's (1973) demonstration that natural categories form around perceptually salient prototypes rather than discovered boundaries.

    This sourceFoundational work on prototype theory and graded category membership; demonstrates human categorization operates via prototypes, not necessary-and-sufficient features. prototype theory and cognitive categorization archetype as cognitive compression mechanism

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