Commonalities and differences in similarity comparisons

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-249

  Markman, Arthur B ^a   Gentner, Dedre ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030003656     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200884     Document Type: Article

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