for hierarchically organized (taxonomic) categories, there is a priveleged level, the basic level.
, it's a level in a conceptual taxonomy somewhere between the most general (e.g., animal, or anything more general than that) and the most specific (e.g., yellow-bellied sapsucker).
the basic level tends to be the first concepts young children learn
at which parents tend to label concepts when speaking to young children
. It's the most general level at which it's easy to obtain conceptual priming,
the level at which people tend to first identify an object when presented with it visually
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