Similarity as an explanatory construct

Cognition

Volumn 65, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 87-101

  Sloman, Steven A ^a   Rips, Lance J ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rule based inference; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; THINKING;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING;

EID: 0031638040     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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