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Category Specificity

Category Specificity is a theoretical construct in the study of categorization development that denotes the degree to which cognitive representations or classification processes are selectively tuned to particular categories rather than operating uniformly across domains.

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Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices*

T. H. Michelene, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert Glaser · Cognitive Science · 1981 · 5.2K citations

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CATEGORY SPECIFIC SEMANTIC IMPAIRMENTS

Elizabeth K. Warrington, Tim Shallice · Brain · 1984 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge

Alex Martin, Cheri L. Wiggs, Leslie G. Ungerleider et al. · Nature · 1996 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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A neuropsychological theory of multiple systems in category learning.

F. Gregory Ashby, Leola A. Alfonso-Reese, And U. Turken et al. · Psychological Review · 1998 · 1.2K citations

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CATEGORIES OF KNOWLEDGE

Elizabeth K. Warrington, Rosaleen A. McCarthy · Brain · 1987 · 1.1K citations

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Authors

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  1. SA
    Susan A. Gelman

    University of Michigan, United States

    10 publications · 561 citations

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  2. CG
    Christian Gerlach

    University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

    6 publications · 347 citations

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  3. AC
    Andrei Cimpian

    New York University, United States

    5 publications · 211 citations

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  4. KR
    Keith R. Laws

    University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 147 citations

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  5. HM
    Helen Moss

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 636 citations

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Institutions

287

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    22 publications

    9.7K citations

  3. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    564 citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    860 citations

  5. New York University

    New York, United States

    7 h-index

    10 publications

    415 citations

  6. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

    London, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    9.4K citations

  8. Western University

    London, Canada

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    608 citations

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  2. Child Development

    13 publications · 925 citations

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  3. Neuropsychologia

    11 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

    8 publications · 369 citations

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  5. Memory & Cognition

    8 publications · 427 citations

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