Categorization with limited resources: A family of simple heuristics

Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 352-361

  Martignon, Laura ^a   Katsikopoulos, Konstantinos V ^b,c   Woike, Jan K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Classification and regression; Cue; Exemplar; Heuristics; Lexicographic; Probability; Similarity; Trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549112154     PISSN: 00222496     EISSN: 10960880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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