An investigation of learning strategy supporting transitive inference performance in humans compared to other species

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1370-1387

  Moses, Sandra N ^a   Villate, Christina ^a   Ryan, Jennifer D ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Awareness; Cross species generalizations; Hierarchical relationship; Logic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33646261149     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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