Beyond exemplars and prototypes as memory representations of natural concepts: A clustering approach

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 537-554

  Verbeemen, Timothy ^a   Vanpaemel, Wolf ^a   Pattyn, Sven ^a   Storms, Gert ^a   Verguts, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Categorization; Exemplar models; Prototypes; Semantic concepts; Varying abstraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947506400     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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