Concept information
Preferred term
concept
Definition
- "A mental representation generalized from particular instances, and knowledge of its similarity to other concepts." (Jones et al., 2015, p. 250).
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Scope note
- The concept as mental representation is a popular approach in terminology and cognitive science, but it is not the only one (see, for example, Margolis & Laurence, 2019).
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Barsalou, L. W., Dutriaux, L., & Scheepers, C. (2018). Moving beyond the distinction between concrete and abstract concepts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1752), 20170144. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0144
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Bhatia, S., & Richie, R. (2024). Transformer networks of human conceptual knowledge. Psychological Review, 131(1), 271–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000319
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Jones, M. N., Willits, J. A., & Dennis, S. (2015). Models of semantic memory. In J. R. Busemeyer, Z. Wang, J. T. Townsend, & A. Eidels (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of computational and mathematical psychology (p. 232‑254). Oxford University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Laurence, S., & Margolis, E. (1999). Concepts and cognitive science. In E. Margolis & S. Laurence (Eds.), Concepts : Core readings (p. 3‑81). MIT Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Machery, E. (2005). Doit-on se passer de la notion de concept? Actes Du Colloque de La SOPHA - Montréal - Septembre 2003 : “Language, Pensée, Action,” 2. http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/PhilosophiaScientiae/Electronicjournal/?contentId=2969
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Machery, E. (2011). Doing without concepts. Oxford University Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Margolis, E., & Laurence, S. (2019). Concepts. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/concepts/
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Murphy, G. (2002). The big book of concepts. MIT Press.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Panaccio, C. (2011). Qu’est-ce qu’un concept ? Vrin.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has model(s)
Has theory(ies)
In other languages
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French
URI
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