Inferences about unobserved causes in human contingency learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 330-355

  Hagmayer, York ^a   Waldmann, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY LEARNING;

EID: 33947172616     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210601002470     Document Type: Article

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