Limits of generalization between categories and implications for theories of category specificity

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1865-1874

  Bukach, Cindy M ^a   Phillips, W Stewart ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958458736     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.7.1865     Document Type: Article

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