Categorization and reasoning among tree experts: Do all roads lead to Rome?

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-96

  Medin, Douglas L ^a   Lynch, Elizabeth B ^b   Coley, John D ^b   Atran, Scott ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOTANY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; TREE;

ADULT; AGED; BOTANY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERMINOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 0031065488     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1997.0645     Document Type: Article

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