Stimulus range and discontinuity effects on information-integration category learning and generalization

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1279-1295

  Maddox, W Todd ^a   Filoteo, J Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category coherence; Category learning; Category variance; Generalization; Information integration; Procedural based learning; Retention; Striatal pattern classifier

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RECALL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79955852917     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0101-2     Document Type: Article

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