To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization

By Stevan Harnad. 2005

239 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/842299789e0d4f84197cc896ad9552d99e8a3f72

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Cai Wingfield
2. Briony Banks
3. Louise Connell
4. Tobias Brosch

In Cultural Studies

1. Cai Wingfield
2. Briony Banks
3. Louise Connell

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Cai Wingfield
2. Briony Banks
3. Louise Connell
4. Tobias Brosch
5. Gilles Pourtois

Citations in the corpus

• Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production (2020, background): “The ability to carve up the world into categories – to group like with like and treat distinct entities as equivalent – is arguably the most fundamental process in cognition (Harnad, 2006).”
• The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review (2010, background): “The act of categorisation is therefore critical to cognition (see Harnad, 2005 ) and allows us to give meaning to the world.”