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“The Principle of Cognitive Economy states that a category system should provide maximum information with the least cognitive effort.”
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“It has been proposed that, due to cognitive constraints, both languages and category systems tend to find an optimal tradeoff between simplicity and informativeness [6,8,16–20].”
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“As predicted by Rosch et al. [19,20], the category system of a language can afford to be simpler when the meanings of categories are interpreted in context.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rosch, E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rosch, Eleanor
- Venue
- Readings in Cognitive Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 312-322
- OpenAlex
- W952881364
- Cited by
- 946
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 62 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 45 · 2017: 48 · 2016: 46 · 2015: 62 · 2014: 47 · 2013: 45 · 2012: 48
- FWCI
- 21.07
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Elsevier eBooks (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cognitive and psychological constructs research
- Keywords
- categorization, classification, classification principles
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