Recognition-based inference: When is less more in the real world?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 589-598

  Pachur, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTUITION; LEARNING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77957252626     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.4.589     Document Type: Article

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