American cognitive psychologist who contributed to the debate about the structure of concepts — particularly the challenge to prototype theory from the persistence of classical features in clearly graded concepts.
Armstrong, Gleitman & Gleitman (1983): even concepts with clear classical definitions (odd number, female) show typicality effects — challenging the claim that typicality effects prove concepts lack classical structure.
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