Structural alignment facilitates the noticing of differences

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 565-577

  Gentner, Dedre ^a   Gunn, Virginia ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035710239     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200458     Document Type: Article

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