What is typical about the typicality effect in category-based induction?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 377-388

  Rein, Jonathan R ^a   Goldwater, Micah B ^a   Markman, Arthur B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY;

COGNITION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 77954676051     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.3.377     Document Type: Article

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