As easy to memorize as they are to classify: The 5-4 categories and the category advantage

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1293-1301

  Blair, Mark ^a,b   Homa, Don ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 1442301568     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195812     Document Type: Article

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