Context-Gated Knowledge Partitioning in Categorization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 663-679

  Yang, Lee Xieng ^a   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS; VISION;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEMANTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141864523     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.4.663     Document Type: Article

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