Distinctiveness effect due to contextual information in a categorization task

Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Oker, Ali ^a   Versace, Rémy ^a  

^a Lyon University   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Context effect; Distinctiveness effect; Multiple Trace Memory Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957736109     PISSN: 13796100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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