Alignment and category learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 144-160

  Lassaline, Mary E ^a   Murphy, Gregory L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; LEARNING;

EID: 0031614575     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.24.1.144     Document Type: Article

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