Category learning in the context of co-presented items

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-175

  Andrews, Janet K ^a   Livingston, Kenneth R ^a   Kurtz, Kenneth J ^b  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Category learning; Comparison; Concepts; Context effects

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CATEGORY LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959231069     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-010-0377-5     Document Type: Article

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