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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 29 September 2014 03:20:38PM 9 points [-]

Any recommendations for introductory overviews of cognitive models of categorisation (e.g. prototype theory. exemplar theory, etc.)?

I'm trying to develop a high-level view of how people go wrong when reasoning about groups. I understand this well enough from the positions of statistical inference and categorical logic. What I'm looking for is convenient literature on theories of how human brains put objects into categories.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 October 2014 06:12:35PM 2 points [-]

Thanks-- I hadn't heard of exemplar theory.

Comment author: lucidian 01 October 2014 09:00:35PM 1 point [-]

I don't have an answer, but I would like to second this request.