Abstraction and model evaluation in category learning

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 421-437

  Vanpaemel, Wolf ^a   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 77955885427     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.42.2.421     Document Type: Article

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