Understanding how objects are partitioned into useful groups to form concepts is important to many disciplines. Concepts allow us to treat different objects equivalently according to shared attributes, and hence to communicate about, draw inferences from, reason with, and explain these objects.
Similarity and Categorization provides a uniquely interdisciplinary overview of this area of inquiry. The book brings together leading researchers, reflecting key topics and important developments in the field. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in cognitive psychology,...