Category labels versus feature labels: Category labels polarize inferential predictions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 544-553

  Yamauchi, Takashi ^a   Yu, Na Yung ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; NORMAL HUMAN; THINKING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISION;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 45849143301     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.544     Document Type: Article

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