Learning categories composed of varying instances: The effect of classification, inference, and structural alignment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 64-78

  Yamauchi, Takashi ^a,b   Markman, Arthur B ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0033997106     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211577     Document Type: Article

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