A high-distortion enhancement effect in the prototype-learning paradigm: Dramatic effects of category learning during test

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2088-2096

  Zaki, Safa R ^a   Nosofsky, Robert M ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; PROTOTYPE; RESEARCH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; THINKING;

EID: 38149078047     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03192940     Document Type: Article

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