Causal status as a determinant of feature centrality

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 361-416

  Ahn, Woo Kyoung ^a   Kim, Nancy S ^a   Lassaline, Mary E ^b   Dennis, Martin J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0034575852     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.2000.0741     Document Type: Article

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