Handbook of categorization in cognitive science

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Front Cover; Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; Novel contributions to the second edition; 1 Bridging the Category Divide: Introduction to the First Edition; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Organization of the Book; 1.3 Major Common Themes; 1.3.1 The Notions of Category and Categorization; 1.3.2 The Nature of Categories: Discrete, Vague, or Other; 1.3.3 Are There Modality Effects on Categories?; 1.3.4 Are There Universal Categories? Are There Innate Categories? 1.4 Bridging the Category DivideReferences; I. Categorization in Cognitive Science; 2 To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization; 2.1 Sensorimotor Systems; 2.2 Invariant Sensorimotor Features ("Affordances"); 2.3 Categorization; 2.4 Learning; 2.5 Innate Categories; 2.6 Learned Categories; 2.7 Supervised Learning; 2.8 Instrumental (Operant) Learning; 2.9 Color Categories; 2.10 Categorical Perception; 2.11 Learning Algorithms; 2.12 Unsupervised Learning; 2.13 Supervised Learning; 2.14 Vanishing Intersections?; 2.15 Direct Sensorimotor Invariants; 2.16 Abstraction and Hearsay. 2.17 Abstraction and Amnesia2.18 Invariance and Recurrence; 2.19 Feature Selection and Weighting; 2.20 Discrimination Versus Categorization; 2.21 Recoding and Feature Selection; 2.22 Learned Categorical Perception and the Whorf Hypothesis; 2.23 Uncertainty Reduction; 2.24 Explicit Learning; 2.25 Categorization is Abstraction; 2.26 Sensorimotor Grounding: Direct and Indirect; 2.27 The Adaptive Advantage of Language: Hearsay; 2.28 Grounding instruction in induction; 2.29 Numbers' Affordances; 2.30 Absolute Discriminables and Affordances; 2.31 Cognitive Science is Not Ontology. 2.32 "Abstract" Categories2.33 Cognition is Categorization; References; Appendix A There is Nothing Wrong With the "Classical Theory" of Categorization; Appendix B Associationism Begs the Question of Categorization; 3 The Role of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mechanisms in the Maintenance of the Self-Concept: A Behavioral and Neuroscience Review; 3.1 Bottom-Up Behavioral and Neurological Processes; 3.2 Top-Down Behavioral and Neurological Processes; 3.3 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes Influence One Another to Maintain the Self-Concept; 3.4 Conclusion; References. 4 Categories and Cognitive Anthropology4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Cognition and Culture, Universalism, and Relativism; 4.3 Paradigms and Taxonomies; 4.4 Kinship Terminologies; 4.5 Color Classification; 4.6 Ethnobiology; 4.7 Towards a Science of the Stimulus; References; 5 Emotion Categorization; 5.1 Emotion Production; 5.2 Are Emotions Natural Kinds?; 5.3 Emotion Perception; 5.4 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; 6 Philosophical Analysis as Cognitive Psychology: The Importance of Empty Concepts; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Misadventures of the Classical View; 6.3 Terminological Issues