The use of category and similarity information in limiting hypotheses

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 114-132

  Kincannon, Alexandra ^a   Spellman, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LOGIC; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0037233448     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196087     Document Type: Article

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