Towards better computational models of the balance scale task: A reply to Shultz and Takane

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 473-479

  van der Maas, Han L J ^a   Quinlan, Philip T ^b   Jansen, Brenda R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balance scale task; Latent class analysis; Rule assessment method; Torque difference effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BALANCE SCALE TASK; COGNITION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESEARCH;

EID: 34047121510     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.01.009     Document Type: Note

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