Nonmonotonic Extrapolation in Function Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-50

  Bott, Lewis ^a,b   Heit, Evan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0942278859     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.38     Document Type: Article

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