Are there kinds of concepts?

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2000, Pages 121-147

  Medin, Douglas L ^a   Lynch, Elizabeth B ^a   Solomon, Karen O ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognitive processes; Domain specificity; Mental representation

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PERCEPTION; REVIEW;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033643116     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.51.1.121     Document Type: Article

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