From prototypes to caricatures: Geometrical models for concept typicality

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 402-421

  Ameel, Eef ^a   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contrast categories; Geometrical versus featural similarity representation; Typicality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747789353     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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