The competition-among-relations-in-nominals theory of conceptual combination: Implications for stimulus class formation and class expansion

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 551-565

  Gagné, Christina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Class expansion; Conceptual combination; Math modeling; Noun compounds; Stimulus class formation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036835023     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2002.78-551     Document Type: Article

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