The Costs of Supervised Classification: The Effect of Learning Task on Conceptual Flexibility

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-340

  Hoffman, Aaron B ^a   Rehder, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Categories; Concepts; Eyetracking; Inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954773159     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019042     Document Type: Article

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