Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization

Preface List of contributors 1. Introduction: the ecological and intellectual bases of categorisation Ulric Neisser 2. From direct perception to conceptual structure Ulric Neisser 3. Category cohesiveness, theories and cognitive archaeology Douglas L. Medin and William D. Wattenmaker 4. Cognitive models and prototype theory George Lakoff 5. The instability of graded structure: implications for the nature of concepts Lawrence W. Barsalou 6. Decentralised control of categorisation: the role of prior processing episodes Lee R. Brooks 7. Conceptual development and category structure Frank C. Keil 8. Child-basic object categories and early lexical development Carolyn B. Mervis 9. Scripts and categories: interrelationships in development Robyn Fivush 10. How children constrain the possible meanings of words Ellen M. Markman 11. The role of theories in a theory of concepts Robert N. McCauley Indexes.