Estimating Stimuli From Contrasting Categories: Truncation Due to Boundaries

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 502-519

  Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a   Hedges, Larry V ^a   Lourenco, Stella F ^a   Crawford, L Elizabeth ^b   Corrigan, Bryce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; boundaries; categories; estimation; truncation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

BAYES THEOREM; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548834433     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.502     Document Type: Article

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