Unitization, similarity, and overt attention in categorization and exposure

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1518-1533

  Welham, Alice K ^a,b   Wills, Andy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Categorization; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; OCULOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155148380     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0124-x     Document Type: Article

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