Diagnosticity and Prototypicality in Category Learning: A Comparison of Inference Learning and Classification Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 216-226

  Chin Parker, Seth ^a   Ross, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0942268055     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.216     Document Type: Article

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