Linear separability in superordinate natural language concepts

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-95

  Ruts, Wim ^a   Storms, Gert ^a   Hampton, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1642366075     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195822     Document Type: Article

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