The role of categorical information in processing relational attributes

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 756-765

  Sailor, Kevin M ^a   Shoben, Edward J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030279358     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201100     Document Type: Article

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