Cognitive and perceptual limitations and learning: An excursion into connectionist theory?

Human Development

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 293-319

  Raftopoulos, Athanassios ^a  

^a American College of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Domain undersampling; Learning; Phasing memory; Resource limitations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346879192     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: 14230054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000278733     Document Type: Article

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