Tall is typical: Central tendency, ideal dimensions, and graded category structure among tree experts and novices

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-50

  Lynch, Elizabeth B ^a   Coley, John D ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; TREE;

EID: 0034003996     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211575     Document Type: Article

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