?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Categories+as+paradigms+for+comparative+cognition&rft.creator=Zayan%2C+R&rft.creator=Vauclair%2C+J&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.description=Forming+categories+is+a+basic+cognitive+operation+allowing+animals+to+attain+concepts%2C+i.e.+to+represent+various+classes+of+objects%2C+natural+or+artificial%2C+physical+or+social.+Categories+can+also+be+formed+about+the+relations+holding+among+these+objects%2C+notably+similarity+and+identity.+Some+of+the+cognitive+processes+involved+in+categorisation+will+be+enumerated.+Also%2C+special+reference+will+be+made+to+a+much+neglected+area+of+research%2C+that+of+social+representations.+Here%2C+animals+conceive+the+natural+class+of+their+conspecifics+as+well+as+the+relationships+established+between+them+in+groups.+Two+types+of+social+categories+were+mentioned%3A+(1)+intraspecies+recognition+including+recognition+of+individual+conspecifics%3B+and+(2)+representation+of+dominance+hierarchies+and+of+their+transitivity+in+linear+orders.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3598%2F1%2FZayan-Vauclair_BP_98.pdf&rft.identifier=++Zayan%2C+R+and+Vauclair%2C+J++(1998)+Categories+as+paradigms+for+comparative+cognition.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3598%2F