Feature-feature causal relations and statistical co-occurrences in object concepts

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 418-431

  McNorgan, Chris ^a   Kotack, Rachel A ^a   Meehan, Deborah C ^a   McRae, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34447338603     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193282     Document Type: Article

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