RESEARCH
Concepts
I research the psychology of concepts and categorization. The way in which people understand the world by classifying objects, people, events or situations into different conceptual types or categories is a fundamental topic for cognitive science. Concepts are the basic building blocks of thoughts and ideas, and play a major part in determining the meaning of substantive words in any language.
Publications
A full list of my publications
Conference presentations since 2000
Current research projects
I am currently involved in a number of projects that involve different aspects of how people represent and use conceptual information.
Conceptual combination, including creating novel products
Contrast and assimilation effects in a dual categorization task
Vagueness of semantic terms
Stability of semantic judgments
Genericity in semantic memory
Metamemory and consistency of memory judgments