The Diagnosis of Disease among the Subanun of Mindanao

Frake, Charles O.

doi:10.1525/aa.1961.63.1.02a00070

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“…Somewhat higher values, approximating those suggested by Levi-Strauss, are provided by Brown (1985). Expert databases of several hundred items may also be found in traditional medicine (Frake 1961). All in all, these anthropological observations may imply that human cultures naturally converge on orally reliant databases of several hundred items because our long-term memory finds it convenient to deal with such bodies of long-term information, but not larger ones (Berlin 1992).…”

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How big is human memory, or on being just useful enough.

Dudai¹

1997

Learn. Mem.

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We are, in many respects, what we remember. But how much do we do? So far, science has provided only a very partial answer to this riddle. The magical number seven, plus or minus two, seems to constrain the capacity of our immediate memory (Miller 1956). But surely its constraints dissipate when memories settle in long-term stores. Yet how big are these stores? If we combine all of our factual knowledge and personal reminiscence, childhood scenes and memories of the past day, intimate experiences and professional expertisemhow many items are there, that, combined together, mold us into unique individuals?The answer is not simple, and neither is the question. For example, what is an item in long-term memory? And how can we measure it, being sure that we unveil memory capacity and not merely the occasional ability to tap it? Such theoretical and practical difficulties, no doubt, have contributed to the fact that the capacity of human memory is still an enigma. Yet, despite the inherent and undeniable complexities, the issue deserves to be retrieved, once in a while, from the oblivions of the collective memory of the scientific community. (For a selection of earlier discussions of the size of human long-term memory, see Galton 1879;Landauer 1986;Crovitz et al. 1991.)

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Section: On the Size Of Orally Reliant Databasesmentioning

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How big is human memory, or on being just useful enough.

Dudai¹

1997

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“…The two superordinate natural language concepts used in this experiment were fruits and vegetables . To verify whether these concepts function as each other's contrast category, 20 research assistants were given the standard question for deriving contrast sets (Frake, 1961;Malt & Johnson, 1992;Rosch & Mervis, 1975). They were asked to imagine that they have heard a description of an object and that they are trying to guess what the object is.…”

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Categorization of novel stimuli in well-known natural concepts: A case study

Storms

Boeck

Ruts

2001

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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In this study, we investigated to what extent exemplar-based and prototype predictors can be applied to predicting categorization in natural language concepts. Participants categorized novel tropical foods into two well-known natural language concepts: fruits and vegetables. The results indicate that both the prototype predictors and the exemplar predictors contribute significantly in accounting for the categorization choices but that the contribution of the prototype predictor comes from just a limited number of features.

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“…In der Regel geschah dies im Kontext von Feldforschungsberichten (FRAKE 1962, 1964a, 1964b, 1964c. Eine Aus nahme ist der Aufsatz "Die ethnographische Er forschung kognitiver Systeme" (FRAKE 1962(FRAKE , 1973b …”

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Empirische Analyse komplexer kognitiver Strukturen / Empirical Analysis of Complex Cognitive Structures

Weymann

1973

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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The Diagnosis of Disease among the Subanun of Mindanao

Cited by 227 publications

References 7 publications

How big is human memory, or on being just useful enough.

How big is human memory, or on being just useful enough.

Categorization of novel stimuli in well-known natural concepts: A case study

Empirische Analyse komplexer kognitiver Strukturen / Empirical Analysis of Complex Cognitive Structures

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