Effects of similarity and practice on speeded classification response times and accuracies: Further tests of an exemplar-retrieval model

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-93

  Nosofsky, Robert M ^a   Alfonso Reese, Leola A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; RESPONSE TIME; THEORY;

EID: 0032986320     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201215     Document Type: Article

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