Order of acquisition in learning perceptual categories: A laboratory analogue of the age-of-acquisition effect?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-74

  Stewart, Neil ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL;

ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 50949092176     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.1.70     Document Type: Article

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