Speeded classification in a probabilistic category structure: Contrasting exemplar-retrieval, decision-boundary, and prototype models

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 608-629

  Nosofsky, Robert M ^a   Stanton, Roger D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 22544446432     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.31.3.608     Document Type: Article

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