No evidence for rule-based processing in the inverse base-rate effect

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2097-2105

  Lamberts, Koen ^a   Kent, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVERSE BASE RATE EFFECT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

EID: 38149075883     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192941     Document Type: Article

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