Representation at different levels in a conceptual hierarchy

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-18

  Voorspoels, Wouter ^a   Storms, Gert ^a   Vanpaemel, Wolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Categorization; Computational models; Concept representation; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80955177173     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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