title: Abstraction and context in concept representation.
abstract: This paper develops the notion of abstraction in the context of the psychology of concepts, and discusses its relation to context dependence in knowledge representation. Three general approaches to modelling conceptual knowledge from the domain of cognitive psychology are discussed, which serve to illustrate a theoretical dimension of increasing levels of abstraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK. hampton@city.ac.uk
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hampton
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008960:Models, Psychological