Category coherence and category-based property induction

Cognition

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-153

  Rehder, Bob ^a   Hastie, Reid ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b C74 Harper Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Category based property induction; Classification; Coherence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTUITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0347301664     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00167-7     Document Type: Article

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