Family Resemblances: Studies in the Internal Structure of Categories

By Eleanor Rosch, Carolyn B. Mervis. 1975

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A self-organizing neural network architecture for learning human-object interactions (2017, background): “Moreover, prototype-based learning aproaches are supported by psychological studies claiming that seantic categories in the brain are represented by a set of most ypical examples of these categories [16] .”
THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN: HIERARCHICAL INCLUSIVENESS, AGE, PERCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTE, AND GROUP VERSUS INDIVIDUAL ANALYSES (2010, background): “Jones and Smith (1993) succinctly argued this dynamic process view of categorization, asserting that categories are “emergent products of multiple knowledge sources in specific task contexts” (p.”
A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks (2018, methodology): “When is a category learned at all, and what determines its coherence? An influential proposal [8,15] suggested that coherent categories consist of tight clusters of items that share many features, and moreover are highly distinct from other categories with different sets of shared features.”
The cognitive linguistics enterprise: an overview (2007, background): “…of the ancient Greek philosophers– was called into question. h e new ideas that contributed to this development emerged from the research of Eleanor Rosch and her colleagues on prototypes and basic level category research (e.g., Rosch, 1975, 1977, 1978; Rosch & Mervis, 1975; Rosch et al., 1976).”
Categorization theory and research in consumer psychology: category representation and category-based inference (2008, methodology): “…studies have assessed degree of prototypicality through analysis of a category's features or attributes, using measures such as family resemblance (Rosch & Mervis, 1975; in the consumer literature, Loken & Ward, 1990; Viswanathan & Childers, 1999), ideals (Barsalou, 1985; in the consumer…”
Alternative Perspectives on the Transfer of Learning: History, Issues, and Challenges for Future Research (2006, background): “Abstraction is typically conceived as the extraction of commonalities from a set of concrete examples (e.g., Rosch & Mervis, 1975 ).”
Prototype and Exemplar-Based Information in Natural Language Categories (2000, methodology): “In t prototype view (Rosch, 1975a, 1978, 198 Rosch & Mervis, 1975), it is assumed that c egories are represented by a set of feat which may carry more or less weight in t definition of the prototype, and categorizatio This research project was supported by Grant 2.007 from the Belgian National…”
A perspective on judgment and choice: mapping bounded rationality. (2003, background): “The classic discussion of basic-level categories included demonstrations of the ease with which features of the prototype come to mind (Rosch & Mervis, 1975).”
Artifacts are not ascribed essences, nor are they treated as belonging to kinds (2003, background): “One might object to our argument as applied to the domain of our example, natural kinds, because natural kinds exhibit clusters of correlated properties (Rosch & Mervis, 1975).”
Embodiment in Attitudes, Social Perception, and Emotion (2005, background): “A sizable literature on concepts has demonstrated that categories possess statistically correlated features (e.g., Chin & Ross, 2002; Rosch & Mervis, 1975).”
Evidence for Representations of Perceptually Similar Natural Categories by 3-Month-Old and 4-Month-Old Infants (1993, background): “In adulthood, there is evidence, beginning with the work of Rosch (Mervis and Rosch 1981; Rosch 1975; Rosch and Mervis 1975), that prototype structures describe the internal representations of natural categories.”