Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories
Suzanne Kemmer · Psychology Press eBooks · 2003
One of the burning questions in cognitive science is how human beings conceptualize the world around them. How do we categorize experience, such that we can break it down for purposes of conceptual manipulation (i.e., thought) and communication? To what extent do all humans categorize experience in the same way? This leads to the second question: What conceptual categories are present in human cognition in general, as opposed to categories specific to individual languages, or that distinguish us from our primate relatives?