TY - JOUR
T1 - Basic Levels in Artificial and Natural Categories
T2 - Are All Basic Levels Created Equal?
AU - Lassaline, Mary E.
AU - Wisniewski, Edward J.
AU - Medin, Douglas L.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - This chapter addresses the nature of the basic level of conceptual structure in both naturally occurring and artificially constructed categories. There is a description on some initial work on basic levels, as well as theories and metrics relevant to them. The relationship between artificial and natural category studies has important consequences for the models that have addressed basic level phenomena. These models typically have simulated the results of artificial category studies. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how well such studies reflect the true basic level phenomena involving natural stimuli. If the basic level emerges for the same reasons for artificial and for natural categories, then a theory that explains the basic level in one domain necessarily explains the basic level in the other. The chapter examines the relation between artificial and natural basic level categories and describes some recent research in the laboratory concerning the artificial basic levels.
AB - This chapter addresses the nature of the basic level of conceptual structure in both naturally occurring and artificially constructed categories. There is a description on some initial work on basic levels, as well as theories and metrics relevant to them. The relationship between artificial and natural category studies has important consequences for the models that have addressed basic level phenomena. These models typically have simulated the results of artificial category studies. Therefore, it is important to evaluate how well such studies reflect the true basic level phenomena involving natural stimuli. If the basic level emerges for the same reasons for artificial and for natural categories, then a theory that explains the basic level in one domain necessarily explains the basic level in the other. The chapter examines the relation between artificial and natural basic level categories and describes some recent research in the laboratory concerning the artificial basic levels.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61013-4
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)61013-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956719152
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 93
SP - 327
EP - 378
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -