False prototype enhancement effects in dot pattern categorization

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 390-398

  Zaki, Safa R ^a   Nosofsky, Robert M ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN CATEGORIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042725015     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195833     Document Type: Article

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