Missing the Forest for the Trees: Object-discrimination Learning Blocks Categorization Learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1510-1517

  Soto, Fabian A ^a   Wasserman, Edward A ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

associative learning; natural scenes; object categorization; Rescorla Wagner theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78650004489     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610382125     Document Type: Article

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