Associative and similarity-based processes in categorization decisions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 625-640

  Hampton, James A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030851759     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211304     Document Type: Article

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