An Exemplar-Based Random Walk Model of Speeded Classification

Psychological Review

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 266-300

  Nosofsky, Robert M ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0031112464     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.104.2.266     Document Type: Article

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