Learning Myopia: An Adaptive Recency Effect in Category Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 626-640

  Jones, Matt ^a   Sieck, Winston R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141864520     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.4.626     Document Type: Article

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