Contrasting effects of feature-based statistics on the categorisation and basic-level identification of visual objects

Cognition

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 363-374

  Taylor, Kirsten I ^a,b   Devereux, Barry J ^a   Acres, Kadia ^a,c   Randall, Billi ^a   Tyler, Lorraine K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Conceptual representation; Object processing; Picture naming; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PHONETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855900043     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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