Categorization as casual reasoning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 709-748

  Rehder, Bob ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Causal knowledge; Causal models; Causal reasoning; Conceptual representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141867634     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0364-0213(03)00068-5     Document Type: Article

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