The Effects of Feature-Label-Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 909-957

  Ramscar, Michael ^a   Yarlett, Daniel ^a   Dye, Melody ^a   Denny, Katie ^a   Thorpe, Kirsten ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Concepts; Language; Learning; Prediction; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649905577     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01092.x     Document Type: Article

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