A computational account of the development of the generalization of shape information

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 698-712

  Doumas, Leonidas A A ^a   Hummel, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Development; Learning geons; Relation learning; Shape bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955245333     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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