imported>Theoh: Remove spurious section on Tom Leinster's book "Basic Category Theory". The book is on an unrelated topic. It is a basic book about category theory, not a theory of basic categories.

2025-01-17T17:24:20Z

Remove spurious section on Tom Leinster's book "Basic Category Theory". The book is on an unrelated topic. It is a basic book about category theory, not a theory of basic categories.

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In [[cognitive psychology]], a '''basic category''' is a category at a particular level of the category inclusion hierarchy (i.e., a particular level of [[generality (psychology)|generality]]) that is preferred by humans in learning and memory tasks. The term is associated with the work of [[psychologist]] [[Eleanor Rosch]], who demonstrated basic category preferences in a number of classic [[experiment]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://commonweb.unifr.ch/artsdean/pub/gestens/f/as/files/4610/9778_083247.pdf|title=Principles of Categorization|last=Rosch|first=Eleanor|date=1978|website=Unifr.ch|access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref>

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imported>Theoh: Remove spurious section on Tom Leinster's book "Basic Category Theory". The book is on an unrelated topic. It is a basic book about category theory, not a theory of basic categories.