Human category learning

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2005, Pages 149-178

  Ashby, F Gregory ^a   Maddox, W Todd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision bound; Exemplar; Multiple systems; Prototype; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEEDBACK; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION;

EID: 14544294470     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070217     Document Type: Review

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