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  UCB Psychology Dept: Eleanor Rosch
Professor Rosch is known for her work in concepts and categorization in cognitive psychology which has been influential in many fields (one of which is prototype theory in linguistics) and for her more recent work on Eastern psychologies and the psychology of religion.
Rosch, E. Is causality circular: Event structure in folk psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist logic.
In E. Rosch & B. Lloyd (Eds.), Cognition and categorization.
psychology.berkeley.edu /faculty/profiles/erosch.html   (389 words)

  
  Principles of Categorization
Using a category-membership verification technique, Rosch (1973) found that the differences in reaction time to verify good and poor members were far more extreme for 10-year-old children than for adults, indicating that the children had learned the category membership of the prototypical members earlier than that of other members.
Rosch (1975a) showed that when subjects were given sentence frames such as "X is virtually Y," they reliably placed the more proto­typical member of a pair of items into the referent slot, a finding which is iso­morphic to Tversky's work on asymmetry of similarity relations (Chapter 4).
Rosch (1977) has shown that prototypicality ratings for members of superordinate categories predicts the extent to which the member term is substitutable for the superordinate word in sentences.
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 Rosch, Eleanor - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In a series of experiments in the 1970s, Rosch demonstrated that when people label an everday object or experience, they rely less on abstract definitions than on a comparison with what they regard as the best representative of the category designated by that word.
Rosch also showed that the Dani tribe of New Guinea, although their language lacks words for colors except fl and white, still distinguish among other colors.
Rosch extended her conclusions to universal statements about language, claiming that people in different cultures tend to categorize objects in similar ways.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rosch-el.html   (362 words)

  
 School of Information Science - Hall of Fame
Eleanor Rosch is known for her innovative research in the fields of cognitive science and psychology, where she has focused on categorization, linguistics, and mental representation of objects and concepts.
A basic tenet demonstrated by Rosch's experiments is that people classify an everyday object or experience less on abstract definitions than on what they regard as the best representation of the appropriate category.
Rosch has also devoted a great deal of study to cross-cultural psychology and Eastern psychology, as well as linguistics and the application of categories to meaning and understanding in language.
www.sis.pitt.edu /~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/rosch.html   (302 words)

  
 Eleanor Rosch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization.
Her more recent work in the psychology of religion has sought to show the implications of Buddhism and contemplative aspects of Western religions for modern psychology.
Rosch, E.H., Mervis, C.B., Gray, W.D., Johnson, D.M. and Boyes-Braem, P. (1976) Basic objects in natural categories, Cognitive Psychology 8: 382-439.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_Rosch   (337 words)

  
 Dialog on Leadership: Professor Eleanor Rosch Interview
The focus of Eleanor Rosch's more recent work is on how to broaden and deepen the analytical notions of cognition in the cognitive sciences by relating them to other ways of knowing that have been cultivated through various meditative practices in many cultures around the world.
Rosch distinguishes between two types of knowledge: analytical knowledge (cognitive science) and what she terms "wisdom awareness" or "primary knowing." Says Rosch: "The analytic picture offered by the cognitive sciences is this: the world consists of separate objects and states of affairs.
Eleanor Rosch is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, in the Department of Psychology.
www.dialogonleadership.org /Rosch-1999.html   (9721 words)

  
 Eleanor Rosch — Infoplease.com
Rosch, Eleanor, 1938–, American psychologist, Ph.D. Harvard, 1969.
In a series of experiments in the 1970s, Rosch demonstrated that when people label an everday object or experience, they rely less on abstract definitions than on a comparison with what they regard as the best representative of the category designated by that word.
The effects of job categorization on judgments of the motivating potential of jobs.
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 Categorization - Psychology Wiki - A Wikia wiki
Since the research by Eleanor Rosch and George Lakoff in the 1970s, categorization can also be viewed as the process of grouping things based on prototypes - the idea of necessary and sufficient conditions is almost never met in categories of naturally occurring things.
Rosch, E., and Lloyd, B. (Eds.) (1978), Cognition and categorization.
In E. Rosch and B. Lloyd (Eds.), Cognition and categorization.
psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Categorization   (663 words)

  
 Applying Cognitive Classification Principles to the Study of Prepositions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
According to Rosch, the perceived world structure contains an organised and structured set of correlational attributes and that the ability by humans to perceive these attributes is a result of their interaction with the physical and social environment.
Rosch's work also emphasised the notion of prototypicality derived from psychological investigations as a criterion to classification in the mental lexicon.
An advantage of Rosch's (1978) work on categorisation and prototypes to pedagogy is the value of logic that would accompany the process of categorisation.
www.shakespeare.uk.net /journal/2_2/tan2.html   (2598 words)

  
 Alex Wright : Eleanor Rosch, Recategorized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
For the last few years, I've been fascinated with Eleanor Rosch's work on prototype theory (which George Lakoff took as his starting point for Women, Fire and Dangerous Things).
Briefly, Rosch's theory suggests that people create categories by mapping their sensory perceptions against cognitive "prototypes"; in contrast to the traditional classical view of categories as idealized expressions of some transcendental higher truth.
So, I suppose it should come as no surprise that Rosch turns out to be a Buddhist; I just discovered she was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
www.agwright.com /blog/archives/001081.html   (182 words)

  
 Eleanor Rosch: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Rosch, E. The nature of mental codes for color categories es.
Eleanor Rosch, Ph.D., Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Eleanor Rosch Recent work in cognitive science has let to interesting investigationsabout the inner workings of the human mind from an experimental point of view such as categorization, memory, and reasoning.
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 Adventure of Strategy: A New (?) Way of “Knowing”
Eleanor Rosch, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is on a quest to re-invent psychology.
The concepts that Rosch expounds have close parallels in ecology, where “survival of the fittest” is the most basic of rules.
This requires engagement at an emotional level (“the heart of the heart of the heart,” as Rosch puts it,) as well as the analytical level.
www.robmillard.com /archives/47-print.html   (783 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Eleanor Rosch": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
However, in a line of study which continues to exert wide influence in several cognitive sciences, Eleanor Rosch (1973a, 1973b-then Eleanor Heider) strongly challenged the Whorfian line: she demonstrated that,...
And Eleanor Rosch, the cognitive scientist at Berkeley,...
Also in the 19 70s Eleanor Rosch, one of Bruner's graduate students, began a program of study of natural categories which revealed that generally they lacked defining...
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 Surrendering Control - from Presence
According to Rosch’s theory, primary knowing is possible because mind and world are aspects of the same underlying field.
Speaking of her experiences as a longtime meditator and student of Buddhism and Taoism, Rosch observed, “If you follow your nature enough, if you follow your nature as it moves, if you follow so far that you really let go, then you find that you’re actually the original being, the original way of being.
Referring to the Taoist notion of Source, Rosch said, “There’s this awareness, this little spark, which is completely independent of all the things that we think are so important—achievement or nonachievement, even being alive or dead, or awake or asleep.
www.collectivewisdominitiative.org /papers/Presence/surrendering.htm   (2296 words)

  
 NLP & Cognitive Sciences: The Embodied Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Eleanor Rosch, has been teaching and researching both cognitive psychlogy and Buddhist psychology for many years at Berkeley.
At this point in the narrative, Varela, Thompson and Rosch take a surprizing turn and devote a chapter to modern advances in theories of evolution, and recent writings about evolution as a mutual "ecology and developement in congruence," rather a co-evolution of species and self-organizing configurations, conecting organisms in "structural couplings" with their biological networks.
Varela, Thompson, and Rosch are to be applauded for their effort.
www.cs.ucr.edu /~gnick/bvdh/print_embodied_mind.htm   (1894 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Eleanor Rosch (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Eleanor Rosch (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Oxymoron Question
Eleanor Rosch taught seminars in the Psych Dept. in Berkeley on Buddhist Psychology.
She did this because (I think) she felt that conventional psychology is..
perspective on behavior management agendas, due to the linguistic impossibility of its being "good theory." Whereas Eleanor went further and saw that the Beauty Path of Psychology is related to linking up with traditional wisdom such as Vipassana.
users.cwnet.com /phelps/rosch.htm   (172 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for psychologist
Boring was strongly influenced by Edward Titchener and is best known for his work in sensory psychology.
In a series of experiments in the 1970s, Rosch demonstrated that when people label an everday object or experience, they rely less on abstract definitions than on a comparison with what they regard as the best representative of the category
He came to the United States in 1937 and served as research professor at the Univ. of Illinois (1944-73).
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=psychologist   (687 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: On the road
So, I'm spending the morning at Technorati (see my disclosure statement), having lunch with Irina Slutsky who's writing about blogs for Red Herring, and then I have an appointment to talk with The Eleanor Rosch, a polymath at UC Berkeley who unhorsed Aristotle.
Rosch and don't know where to begin asking her questions.
Rosch whose career of thought I admire deeply.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003684.html   (221 words)

  
 Rosch: Transformation of the Wolf Man
Portions of this chapter have been previously published in Rosch, E. (in press a).
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press; and Rosch, E. (in press b).
Rosch, E. Wittgenstein and categorization research in cognitive psychology.
cogweb.ucla.edu /Abstracts/Rosch_97.html   (7842 words)

  
 Publications by Eleanor Rosch in the Interaction-Design.org bibliography - Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, ...
Publications by Eleanor Rosch in the Interaction-Design.org bibliography - Interaction-Design.org: A site about HCI, Usability, UI Design, User Experience, Information Architecture and more..
In: Rosch, Eleanor, Lloyd, Barbara B. (Eds.) "Cognition and Categorization".
See the copyright page for full details or click the 'how to cite' link above for info on how to cite this publication/article/web page.
www.interaction-design.org /references/authors/eleanor_rosch.html   (267 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: [ia summit] Donna Maurer on Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
Donna Maurer of Maadmob Interaction Design has a session explaining to IA's why they ought to take seriously George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, a book basically about Eleanor Rosch's prototype theory.
Eleanor Rosch must have some answer to the question how she arrives at prototypes.
Even the most messy visual categorization contains answers to yes-no questions, and fuzziness is even more complicated rules: Can you answer "yes" to more than half of the next group of questions...
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/ia_summit_donna_maurer_on_wome.html   (787 words)

  
 Dissertations and Publications
In this thought-provoking paper, delivered to the American Psychological Association, Eleanor Rosch, a director of CPS, offers her explanation of how Eastern thought can be integrated into our Western psychological tradition.
Professor Rosch is a professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
She is a co-founder of the Berkeley Cognitive Science Program and the author of a series of seminal works on prototypes and human learning.
www.cpsphd.edu /dissertations_and_publications.htm   (397 words)

  
 Experimental "Cognitive Science, Humanities, and the Arts" Bibliography Query
Dennett, Daniel C. "Review of Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch's 'The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience' ", The American Journal of Psychology 106 pp.
Dennett, Daniel; " Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Review)", The American Journal of Psychology 106 pp.
Preston, B. " Review of Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch's 'The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience' ", Philosophical Psychology 7 p.
www.hfac.uh.edu /cogsci/biblio/biblio.cfm?Category=General   (610 words)

  
 Reflecting on what meditation can tell psychology
And that, in many ways, summarizes what Buddhist meditation can teach psychology about the human mind, argued Berkeley psychology professor Eleanor Rosch, PhD, in a paper delivered at APA's 2002 Annual Convention.
Instead, Rosch holds that the field ought to study such experience "to challenge our image of what normal everyday consciousness itself may be." In her view, consciousness is a limited way of knowing, while meditation-induced "awareness" is a broader, wiser way of knowing--a sort of expanded consciousness.
By folding in more such ideas from meditation and Eastern spirituality, psychology would, Rosch believes, do more to "offer a path a path of compassionate action."
www.apa.org /monitor/nov02/reflecting.html   (308 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Eleanor Rosch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Some scientists took their own research in new directions partly as a result of these dialogues.
(Participants from the Bay Area included UC Berkeley psychologist Eleanor Rosch, UC San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman, psychologist Jeanne Tsai and professor of religion Lee Yearly of Stanford.)
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