Exemplars, prototypes, similarities, and rules in category representation: An example of hierarchical bayesian analysis

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1403-1424

  Lee, Michael D ^a   Vanpaemel, Wolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Category learning; Generalized Context Model; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Varying Abstraction Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549100195     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210802073697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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