Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development
- F. Keil
- Psychology
- 11 August 1989
In "Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development, "Frank Keil provides a coherent account of how concepts and word meanings develop in children, adding to our understanding of the representational…
Explanation and understanding.
- F. Keil
- PhilosophyAnnual Review of Psychology
- 2006
The study of explanation, while related to intuitive theories, concepts, and mental models, offers important new perspectives on high-level thought and particularly adept at using situational support to build explanations on the fly in real time.
The hidden structure of overimitation
- D. Lyons, Andrew G. Young, F. Keil
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 11 December 2007
This paper shows that children who observe an adult intentionally manipulating a novel object have a strong tendency to encode all of the adult's actions as causally meaningful, implicitly revising their causal understanding of the object accordingly, which allows children to rapidly calibrate their causal beliefs about even the most opaque physical systems, but it also carries a cost.
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
- Leon Rozenblit, F. Keil
- PsychologyCognitive Sciences
- 1 September 2002
The mechanisms behind the initial confidence and behind overconfidence, the illusion of depth with explanatory knowledge, and the roles of intuitive theories in models of concepts and cognition are explored.
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
- D. Weisberg, F. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, J. Gray
- PsychologyJournal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1 March 2008
The neuroscience information had a particularly striking effect on nonexperts' judgments of bad explanations, masking otherwise salient problems in these explanations.
Mapping the mind: The birth and nurturance of concepts by domains: The origins of concepts of living things
- F. Keil
- History
- 1994
Categorical effects in the perception of faces
- J. M. Beale, F. Keil
- PsychologyCognition
- 1 December 1995
Conceptualizing a Nonnatural Entity: Anthropomorphism in God Concepts
- J. Barrett, F. Keil
- PhilosophyCognitive Psychology
- 1 December 1996
By heightening subjects' awareness of their theological beliefs, this work was able to manipulate the degree of anthropomorphization, which indicates that God is unintentionally anthropomorphized in some contexts, perhaps as a means of representing poorly understood nonnatural entities.
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