Category discriminability, base-rate, and payoff effects in perceptual categorization

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 361-376

  Bohil, Corey J ^a   Maddox, W Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0035257188     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194476     Document Type: Article

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