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Eleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at The University of California, Berkeley. She is primarily known for her work on categorization as it relates to cognitive psychology. She also created prototype theory in linguistics. She was influenced by George Lakoff and incorporated eastern thought such as Buddhism into her work. Psychology (ancient Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos/-ology = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of the human mind and human behavior. ... University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as California, Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate. ... For Wikipedias categorization projects, see Wikipedia:Categorization. ... Cognitive psychology is the psychological science that studies cognition, the mental processes that underlie behavior, including thinking, deciding, reasoning, and to some extent motivation and emotion. ... The Prototype is what a Stereotype is called in cognitive linguitics. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ... George P. Lakoff (, born 1941) is a professor of linguistics (in particular, cognitive linguistics) at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1972. ... A replica of an ancient statue of Gautama Buddha, found from Sarnath, near Varanasi Buddhism, a religion and philosophy from ancient India, is based on the teachings of the Buddha, SiddhÄrtha Gautama, of the Shakyas. ...

Partial bibliography

Rosch, E. Varela, F. & Thompson, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind. Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Rosch, E. (1983). Prototype classification and logical classification: The two systems. In Scholnick, E. New Trends in Cognitive Representation: Challenges to Piaget's Theory; 73—86. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mervis, C. & Rosch E. (1981). Categorization of Natural Objects. Annual Review of Psychology, 32: 89-113. Annual Reviews, Inc.

Rosch, E. & Lloyd, B. (Eds.)(1978). Cognition and Categorization. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Rosch, E. (1977). Human Categorization. Advances in Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1: 1-72, Neil Warren ed. Academic Press Ltd.

Rosch, E. (1975). Cognitive representation of semantic categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 104:573-605.

Rosch, E. (1973). Natural categories. Cognitive Psychology 4: 328—350.

External links

Faculty page for Eleanor Rosch at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley
Eleanor's web page on Pitt's Information Science Hall of Fame

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UCB Psychology Dept: Eleanor Rosch (389 words)
	Professor Rosch is known for her work in concepts and categorization in cognitive psychology which has been influential in many fields (one of which is prototype theory in linguistics) and for her more recent work on Eastern psychologies and the psychology of religion.
	Rosch, E. Is causality circular: Event structure in folk psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist logic.
	In E. Rosch & B. Lloyd (Eds.), Cognition and categorization.

Principles of Categorization (7774 words)
	Using a category-membership verification technique, Rosch (1973) found that the differences in reaction time to verify good and poor members were far more extreme for 10-year-old children than for adults, indicating that the children had learned the category membership of the prototypical members earlier than that of other members.
	Rosch (1975a) showed that when subjects were given sentence frames such as "X is virtually Y," they reliably placed the more prototypical member of a pair of items into the referent slot, a finding which is isomorphic to Tversky's work on asymmetry of similarity relations (Chapter 4).
	Rosch (1977) has shown that prototypicality ratings for members of superordinate categories predicts the extent to which the member term is substitutable for the superordinate word in sentences.

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