A rose in any other font would not smell as sweet: Effects of perceptual fluency on categorization

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1178-1194

  Oppenheimer, Daniel M ^a   Frank, Michael C ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorical induction; Categorization; Perceptual fluency; Priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 38649094593     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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