When similarity and causality compete in category-based property generalization

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-16

  Rehder, Bob ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERSITY EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; SIMILARITY; TYPICALITY EFFECT; ANIMAL; ANT; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PENAEIDAE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ATTENTION; CAUSALITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; PENAEIDAE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33745952004     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193382     Document Type: Article

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