What is learned in knowledge-related categories? Evidence from typicality and feature frequency judgments

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 856-867

  Spalding, Thomas L ^a   Murphy, Gregory L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032745235     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198538     Document Type: Article

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