Base rates in category learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-26

  Kruschke, John K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0029688244     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.3     Document Type: Article

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