How many exemplars are used? Explorations with the Rex Leopold I model

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-343

  de Schryver, Maarten ^a   Vandist, Katleen ^a   Rosseel, Yves ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 66849111649     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.2.337     Document Type: Article

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