Situational information contributes to object categorization and inference

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-94

  Chaigneau, Sergio E ^a   Barsalou, Lawrence W ^b   Zamani, Mojdeh ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ   (Chile)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Categorization; Events; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 57749171753     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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