Similarity, feature discovery, and the size principle

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 256-268

  Navarro, Daniel J ^a   Perfors, Amy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Feature discovery; Similarity; Size principle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE;

BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77649187271     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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