Categories and causality: The neglected direction

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-58

  Waldmann, Michael R ^a   Hagmayer, York ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Casual learning; Casual reasoning; Categorization; Natural kinds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTIVATION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTIVATION;

EID: 33646550876     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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