Spacing and induction: Application to exemplars presented as auditory and visual text

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-221

  Zulkiply, Norehan ^a   McLean, John ^a   Burt, Jennifer S ^a   Bath, Debra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Category discrimination; Category induction; Category learning; Inductive learning; Spacing effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856569863     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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