Refining the visual-cortical hypothesis in category learning

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 88-96

  Coutinho, Mariana V C ^a   Couchman, Justin J ^a   Redford, Joshua S ^a   David Smith, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Perceptual representation system; Prototypes; Typicality; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATEGORY LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956170656     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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