Induction: From simple categorization to higher-order inference problems

Social Cognition: The Basis of Human Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 93-120

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Plessner, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837948     Document Type: Chapter

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