The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich
variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although …

Every person belongs to multiple social categories, such as those based on gender, race, or
ethnicity, yet researchers have traditionally studied beliefs about each of these groups in …

This paper examines the concept of expatriates, arguing that sloppy use of the term in the
past has led to problems of inconsistent research, incompatible findings and a lack of clarity …

Over recent years, the psychology of concepts has been rejuvenated by new work on
prototypes, inventive ideas on causal cognition, the development of neo-empiricist theories …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

The notion of a compositional language of thought (LOT) has been central in computational
accounts of cognition from earliest attempts (Boole, 1854; Fodor, 1975) to the present day …

Die erste Auflage des Buches entstand zu einem Zeitpunkt, zu dem Allgemeine Psychologie
und kognitive Neurowissenschaften zu verschmelzen begannen. Erkenntnisse aus den …

A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

Research in education and cognitive development suggests that explaining plays a key role
in learning and generalization: When learners provide explanations—even to themselves …

This paper addresses theoretical problems arising from the vagueness of language terms,
and intuitions of the vagueness of the concepts to which they refer. It is argued that the …