Recall, similarity judgment, and identification of trees: A comparison of experts and novices

Ethos

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-193

  Shipman, Asha C Srinivasan ^a   Boster, James Shilts ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Ethnobiology; Expert novice differences; Function and morphology; Stimulus effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449148967     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2008.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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