Hierarchical learning of dimensional biases in human categorization

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 727-735

  Heller, Katherine ^a   Sanborn, Adam ^b   Chater, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BASIS SETS; CLASSIFIEDS; GENERALISATION; HIERARCHICAL LEARNING; INFINITE NUMBERS; LEARN+; LEARNING BEHAVIOR; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACES; NATURAL VARIATION; RATIONAL MODELS;

EID: 79959779675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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