Generalized equivalence classes as response transfer networks

Psychological Record

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 373-413

  Belanich, James ^a,b   Fields, Lanny ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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