| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第11-16页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第11-13页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Purpose and Significance of the Present Study | 第14页 |
| 1.4 Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第16-25页 |
| 2.1 The Classical Approach to Category | 第16-17页 |
| 2.2 The Cognitive Approach to Category | 第17-25页 |
| 2.2.1 Challenge from the Philosophical Field: Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2.2 Challenge from the Psychological Field: Berlin & Kay’s Discovery | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2.3 Challenge from the Linguistic Field: Rosch’s Prototype Theory | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2.4 Challenge from Other Theories | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three THE THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS ONCATEGORIZATION IN THE FIELD OF NEUROSCIENCE | 第25-32页 |
| 3.1 Hypothesis Based on the Neural Structure Principle | 第25-28页 |
| 3.1.1 Sensory/Functional Theories | 第25-27页 |
| 3.1.2 Domain-specific Hypothesis | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2 Hypothesis Based on the Correlated Structure Principle | 第28-32页 |
| 3.2.1 Organized Unitary Content Hypothesis | 第28-29页 |
| 3.2.2 The Conceptual-structure Account | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Four A REVIEW OF FMRI STUDY ON CATEGORIZATION | 第32-46页 |
| 4.1 Brain Regions Related to Semantic Tasks | 第32-36页 |
| 4.2 Categorization-related Brain Regions | 第36-44页 |
| 4.2.1 Category-specific semantic deficit for living/nonliving things | 第36-39页 |
| 4.2.2 Categorization-related tasks | 第39-40页 |
| 4.2.3 Brain regions related to living and non-living things | 第40-44页 |
| 4.3 Summary | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter Five A REVIEW OF ERP STUDY ON CATEGORIZATION | 第46-57页 |
| 5.1 A Review of ERP Study on Categorization | 第46-53页 |
| 5.1.1 A review of ERP study on living/nonliving things | 第46-48页 |
| 5.1.2 A review of ERP study on superordinate/ basic/ subordinate categorization | 第48-51页 |
| 5.1.3 A review of ERP study on social categorization | 第51-53页 |
| 5.2 Categorization-related ERP components | 第53-56页 |
| 5.3 Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Chapter Six CONCLUSION | 第57-63页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings | 第57-62页 |
| 6.1.1 Evidences of the classical view | 第57-58页 |
| 6.1.2 Evidences of the prototype theory on categorization | 第58-59页 |
| 6.1.3 Evidences of exemplar-based theory on categorization | 第59-60页 |
| 6.1.4 Evidences of the theoretical hypothesis on categorization in the field of neuroscience | 第60-62页 |
| 6.2 Limitations of the Study | 第62页 |
| 6.3 Suggestions for Further Study | 第62-63页 |
| References | 第63-67页 |
| Publications | 第67页 |
