Less is more in covariation detection – or is it?

Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 92-124

  Juslin, Peter ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^b   Chater, Nick ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746635581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614576.005     Document Type: Chapter

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