Causal Induction in the Presence of a Perfect Negative Cue: Contrasting Predictions from Associative and Statistical Models

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-191

  Vallée Tourangeau, Frédéric ^a   Murphy, Robin A ^a   Baker, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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