Basic objects in natural categories
By Eleanor Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis, Wayne D. Gray, David M. Johnson, P. Boyes-Braem. 1976
Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- SUN database: Large-scale scene recognition from abbey to zoo (2010, background): “Most of the terms referred to basic and entry level places [30, 24, 25, 14] with different semantic descriptions.”
- A Comprehensive Study of Class Incremental Learning Algorithms for Visual Tasks (2020, background): “• CIFAR100 [25] is designed for object recognition and includes 100 basic level classes [44].”
- Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis—A Survey (2013, background): “These categories are usually referred to as basic level categories and emerged from the area of cognitive psychology [69].”
- Prototype Classification: Insights from Machine Learning (2009, methodology): “We propose to find two particular points that have a set of interesting properties, and call them prototypes by analogy to the mean-of-class prototypes widely used in cognitive modeling and psychology (Reed, 1972; Rosch et al., 1976).”
- Underspecification in Scene Description-to-Depiction Tasks (2022, background): “Ontological speci-ficity in texts depends at least partly on which categories are considered to be basic (e.g. Rosch et al., 1976; Ordonez et al., 2015).”
- Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database (1990, background): “Certain parallels can be drawn between L0 and what has been called the basic level in noun hierarchies (Rosch et al., 1976).”