Exemplar and Prototype Models Revisited: Response Strategies, Selective Attention, and Stimulus Generalization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 924-940

  Nosofsky, Robert M ^a   Zaki, Safa R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036728612     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.5.924     Document Type: Article

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