Initial training with difficult items facilitates information integration, but not rule-based category learning: Research article

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1169-1177

  Spiering, Brian J ^a   Gregory Ashby, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING; SOCIAL FACILITATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57349168097     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02219.x     Document Type: Article

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