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Basic Level Categories

Basic Level Categories is a cognitive categorization construct that represents the most psychologically salient and functionally informative level in a hierarchical taxonomy, distinguished by maximal cue validity and contextual usefulness relative to superordinate and subordinate levels.

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Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details

Timothy F. Brady, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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The adaptive nature of human categorization.

John R. Anderson · Psychological Review · 1991 · 1K citations

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Objects, parts, and categories.

Barbara Tversky, Kathleen Hemenway · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1984 · 739 citations

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Object categories and expertise: Is the basic level in the eye of the beholder?

James W. Tanaka, Marjorie Taylor · Cognitive Psychology · 1991 · 728 citations

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Evidence for Representations of Perceptually Similar Natural Categories by 3-Month-Old and 4-Month-Old Infants

Paul C. Quinn, Peter D. Eimas, Stacey L. Rosenkrantz · Perception · 1993 · 522 citations

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    Sandra R. Waxman

    Northwestern University, United States

    7 publications · 624 citations

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  2. CΒ
    Carolyn Β. Mervis

    University of Louisville, United States

    7 publications · 927 citations

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  3. JW
    James W. Tanaka

    University of Victoria, Canada

    6 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Johan Wagemans

    KU Leuven, Belgium

    4 publications · 90 citations

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    Susan A. Gelman

    University of Michigan, United States

    4 publications · 369 citations

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  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    808 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    967 citations

  4. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    584 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    847 citations

  6. Peking University

    Beijing, China

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    251 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    5.8K citations

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  1. Child Development

    16 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. Developmental Psychology

    8 publications · 540 citations

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  4. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    7 publications · 1.7K citations

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