Classification response times in probabilistic rule- based category structures: Contrasting exemplar- retrieval and decision-boundary models

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 916-927

  Nosofsky, Robert M ^a   Little, Daniel R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78149316500     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.7.916     Document Type: Article

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