When more is less: Negative exposure effects in unsupervised learning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 890-902

  Clapper, John P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CATEGORY INVENTION MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION TRACKING MODEL; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAINING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 33749639502     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193435     Document Type: Article

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