Top-down versus bottom-up learning in cognitive skill acquisition

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-89

  Sun, Ron ^a   Zhang, Xi ^b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 2442438555     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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