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Prototype theory
 
    -- is a mode of graded categorization in cognitive science, where some members of a cateogory are more central than others. For example, when asked to give an example of the concept  furniture, chair is more frequently cited than, say, stool. Prototype theory also plays a central role in linguistics, as part of mapping from phonological structure to semantic.
   ---formulated in the 1970's by Eleanor Rosch and others
   -- Prototype theory was a radical departure from traditional necessary and sufficient conditions as in Aristotelian logic. which led to set-theroy approached of extensional or intensional semantics. Thus instead of a definition based model e.g. a bird may be defined as elments with features [+features], [+beak] and [+ablility to fly], prototype theory would consider a category like bird as consisting of different elements which have unequal status - e.g. a robin is more prototypical of a bird than, say a penguim. This leads to graded notion of categories, which is central notion in many models of cognitive science and cognitive semantics.
   ---The term prototype has been defined in Eleanor Rosch's study "Natural Categories" (1973) and was first defined as a stimulus, which takes a salient position in the formation of a catrgory as it is the first stimulus to be associated with that category, Later, she redefined it as the most central memeber of a category.

  • Basic level categories
           when asked What are you sitting on?, most subjects prefer to say chair rather than a subordinate such as kitchen chair or a superordinate such as furniture. Basic categories are relatively homogeneous in terms of sensory-motor affordances.At the subordinate level (e.g. [dentist's chairs], [kitchen chairs] etc.) hardly any significant features can be added to that of the basic level; whereas at the superordinate level, these conceptual similarities are hard to pinpoint. A picture of a chair is easy to draw (or visualize), but drawing furniture would be difficult.
        Rosch (1978) defines the basic level as that level that has highest degree of cue validity. Thus, a category like [animal] may have been a prototypical member, but not cognitive visual represenation. On the hand, basic catigories in [animal], i.e. [dog], [bird], [fish], are full of informational content and can easily be categorised in terms of Gestalt and semantic features.

      Clearly semantic models based on attribute-value pairs fail to identify privileged levels in the hierarchy. Functionally, it is thought that basic level categories are a decomposition of the world into maximally informative categories. Thus, they

    * maximize the number of attributes shared by members of the category, and
    * minimize the number of attributes shared with other categories

However the notion of Basic level is problemaitc.
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Exemplar Theories
   ---Is the storage of specific instances(exemplars), with new objects evaluated only with respect to how closely they resemble specific known members of the category.



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