Helping the cognitive system learn: Exaggerating distinctiveness and uniqueness

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 573-584

  Dror, Itiel E ^a   Stevenage, Sarah V ^a   Ashworth, Alan R S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRCRAFT; ART; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 43649089807     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1383     Document Type: Article

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