Tracing the identity of objects

Psychological Review

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Rips, Lance J ^a   Blok, Sergey ^b   Newman, George ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Concepts; Exemplars; Identity; Object concepts

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33244457783     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.113.1.1     Document Type: Review

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