Effect of causal structure on category construction

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1008-1023

  Ahn, Woo Kyoung ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY;

EID: 0032698191     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201231     Document Type: Article

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