Assessing the Concreteness of Relational Representation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1452-1465

  Rein, Jonathan R ^a   Markman, Arthur B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Analogy; Knowledge representation; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 78249274604     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021040     Document Type: Article

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