Principled and statistical connections in common sense conception

Cognition

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-112

  Prasada, Sandeep ^a   Dillingham, Elaine M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual representation; Generic knowledge; Modes of explanation; Principled connections; Type token representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 31344452449     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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