%0 Conference Paper %1 amoretti04conceptual %A Amoretti, Maria Suzana Marc %B Proc. of the First Int. Conference on Concept Mapping %D 2004 %K research.conceptual research.kr.ontologies cites.pclass.d %T Categorisation Process And Conceptual Maps %U http://cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-216.pdf %X This paper refers to the possibility of circulation between the self-organization of the concepts and the relevance of each conceptual property of this cognitive process. The use of technologies in the making of conceptual maps, in special the possibility to create a collaborative map made by different users, points out the cultural aspects of the concept representation, in terms of existing coincidences as to the choice of the prototypical element by the same cultural group. Thus, the technologies of information, focused on the study of individual maps, demand revisited discussions on the popular perceptions concerning concepts used daily (folk psychology). Concept learning supported by computer must take into account not only the features of the groupware used, but the collective semantic universe that is formed as well. A virtual group of students building concepts through the Internet, in a distributed and asynchronized manner, may be recognized as belonging to a given culture through the cognitive dimension expressed by the shared conceptual maps. It aims to identify ideological similarity and cognitive deviation, both based on the prototypes and on the levels of categorization developed in the maps, with an emphasis on the cultural and semiotic aspects of the investigated groups. This research was done by Brazilian university students of Distance Learning using the software CmapTools from The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. The maps are made in a collaborative way and they adopt the "learn by doing" approach, centered on the map construction activity that is developed. It is tried to show how the semiotic and linguistic analysis of the categorization process can help in the identification of the ideological similarity and cognitive deviations, favoring the involvement of students in the map production, exploring and valuing the relation between the categorization process and the cultural experience of the subject in the world, both parts of the cognitive process of conceptual map construction

@inproceedings{amoretti04conceptual, abstract = {This paper refers to the possibility of circulation between the self-organization of the concepts and the relevance of each conceptual property of this cognitive process. The use of technologies in the making of conceptual maps, in special the possibility to create a collaborative map made by different users, points out the cultural aspects of the concept representation, in terms of existing coincidences as to the choice of the prototypical element by the same cultural group. Thus, the technologies of information, focused on the study of individual maps, demand revisited discussions on the popular perceptions concerning concepts used daily (folk psychology). Concept learning supported by computer must take into account not only the features of the groupware used, but the collective semantic universe that is formed as well. A virtual group of students building concepts through the Internet, in a distributed and asynchronized manner, may be recognized as belonging to a given culture through the cognitive dimension expressed by the shared conceptual maps. It aims to identify ideological similarity and cognitive deviation, both based on the prototypes and on the levels of categorization developed in the maps, with an emphasis on the cultural and semiotic aspects of the investigated groups. This research was done by Brazilian university students of Distance Learning using the software CmapTools from The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. The maps are made in a collaborative way and they adopt the "learn by doing" approach, centered on the map construction activity that is developed. It is tried to show how the semiotic and linguistic analysis of the categorization process can help in the identification of the ideological similarity and cognitive deviations, favoring the involvement of students in the map production, exploring and valuing the relation between the categorization process and the cultural experience of the subject in the world, both parts of the cognitive process of conceptual map construction}, added-at = {2010-10-07T11:10:36.000+0200}, author = {Amoretti, Maria Suzana Marc}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2da992fd1c11e2b35de3e832dc341a930/msn}, booktitle = {Proc. of the First Int. Conference on Concept Mapping}, interhash = {a9ee4ca0061d8a9dcfac9b7c8496f553}, intrahash = {da992fd1c11e2b35de3e832dc341a930}, keywords = {research.conceptual research.kr.ontologies cites.pclass.d}, timestamp = {2010-10-07T11:10:36.000+0200}, title = {Categorisation Process And Conceptual Maps}, url = {http://cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-216.pdf}, year = 2004 }