Feature centrality: Naming versus imagining
Abstract
Being white is central to whether we call an animal a "polar bear," but it is fairly peripheral to our concept of what a polar bear is. We propose that a feature is central to category naming in proportion to the feature's category validity--the probability of the feature, given the category. In contrast, a feature is conceptually central in a representation of the object to the extent that the feature is depended on by other features. Further,...
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Title
Feature centrality: Naming versus imagining
Published Date
May 1, 1999
Journal
Volume
27
Issue
3
Pages
526 - 537
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