Blocking in Category Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 685-699

  Bott, Lewis ^a   Hoffman, Aaron B ^b   Murphy, Gregory L ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blocking; categorization; category learning; error driven learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36249004338     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.685     Document Type: Article

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