How to reason without words: Inference as categorization

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-88

  Vigo, Ronaldo ^a   Allen, Colin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal cognition; Categorization; Learning; Reasoning; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LOGIC; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; ANIMAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 61749090927     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-008-0220-4     Document Type: Article

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