What's Behind Different Kinds of Kinds: Effects of Statistical Density on Learning and Representation of Categories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-72

  Kloos, Heidi ^a   Sloutsky, Vladimir M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; category learning; cognitive development; selective attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 39449121903     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.52     Document Type: Article

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