naa a22 4500 510783988 CHVBK 20180411083256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13164-013-0140-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13164-013-0140-9 Artifact and Tool Categorization [Elektronische Daten] [Sara Dellantonio, Claudio Mulatti, Remo Job] This study addresses the issue of artifact kinds from a psychological and cognitive perspective. The primary interest of the investigation lies in understanding how artifacts are categorized and what are the properties people rely on for their identification. According to a classical philosophical definition artifacts form an autonomous class of instances including all and only those objects that do not exist in nature, but are artificial, in the sense that they are made by an artĭfex. This definition suggests that artifacts are classified primarily on the basis of the recognition of their artificial nature. Nevertheless, many psychological and cognitive studies maintain that artifacts are categorized mainly on the basis of the recognition of the function they have been made to accomplish. Since tools are also categorized primarily on the basis of their function, this would imply that artifacts and tools are represented in the same way. In the study participants categorized a set of objects (denoted by words) once as tools and once as artifacts. Results show that reaction times (RTs) are faster in the artifact categorization condition than in the tool categorization condition. This pattern indicates that artifacts and tools are not represented in the same way and that the identification of the members of each class is carried out in the basis of different criteria. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Dellantonio Sara Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy aut Mulatti Claudio Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy aut Job Remo Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy aut Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 407-418 1878-5158 4:3<407 2013 4 13164 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0140-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0140-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dellantonio Sara Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mulatti Claudio Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Job Remo Dipartimento di Psicologia e Scienze Cognitive, Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/3(2013-09-01), 407-418 1878-5158 4:3<407 2013 4 13164 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer