The effects of category use on learned categories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-63

  Ross, Brian H ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0033998368     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211576     Document Type: Article

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