Uncovering Contrast Categories in Categorization With a Probabilistic Threshold Model

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1515-1531

  Verheyen, Steven ^a   De Deyne, Simon ^a   Dry, Matthew J ^b   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorization; Contrast categories; Natural language categories; Similarity; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 82155170540     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024431     Document Type: Article

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