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The Cognitive Basis of Thematic Analysis
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Wei Liu – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
Underlying thematic analysis are a few fundamental human cognitive processes, such as categorizing, prototyping and metaphorical mapping. By unpacking these basic processes of human cognition, this paper hopes to provide a cognitive basis for thematic analysis as a foundational method in data analysis for qualitative research. In particular, it…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cognitive Processes, Classification, Data Analysis