Evidence for the utilization of distinctive features in nonlinear discrimination problems

Biological Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-292

  Reinhard, Günter ^a   Lachnit, Harald ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Category learning; Humans; Patterning; Pupil response; Stimulus probability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUPIL REFLEX; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUPIL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036876394     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(02)00088-1     Document Type: Article

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