The origin of exemplar effects in rule-driven categorization

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 272-288

  Lacroix, Guy L ^a   Larochelle, Serge ^b   Giguère, Gyslain ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VIDEORECORDING;

COGNITION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 15544370421     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.2.272     Document Type: Article

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