Hierarchical models in cognition: Do they have psychological reality?

By G. Cohen. 2000

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Levels of processing: Past, present... and future? (2002, methodology): “In her excellent review of hierarchical models in cognition, Cohen (2000) distinguishes truly hierarchical models in which one level controls processing operations in the level below, from forms in which ‘‘there is simply a transfer of information from one stage to another’’ (Cohen, 2000, p.2).”
Psychological need satisfaction across levels of experience: Their organization and contribution to general well-being (2013, background): “Hierarchical models imply that mental representations are organized from the most basic and concrete units at the lower end of the hierarchy to the most abstract representations at the top of the hierarchy (Cohen, 2000).”
Event structure in perception and conception. (2001, background): “(For a comprehensive discussion EVENT STRUCTURE 36 of the psychological reality of hierarchical representations, see Cohen, 2000.)”
Aging and autobiographical memory: dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. (2002, background): “On the other hand, lower level elements in hierarchical knowledge structures are more difficult to retrieve (Cohen, 2000).”