Category dimensionality and feature knowledge: When more features are learned as easily as fewer

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 301-315

  Hoffman, Aaron B ^a   Murphy, Gregory L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Concepts; Error driven learning; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33645727887     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.301     Document Type: Article

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