In search of abstraction: The varying abstraction model of categorization

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 732-749

  Vanpaemel, Wolf ^a   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 50949117247     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.15.4.732     Document Type: Review

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