Information-integration category learning and the human uncertainty response

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 536-554

  Paul, Erick J ^a   Boomer, Joseph ^b   Smith, J D ^b   Ashby, F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Metacognition; Non declarative memory; Procedural memory; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79955484582     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0041-4     Document Type: Article

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