Optimal foraging in semantic memory

Psychological Review

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 431-440

  Hills, Thomas T ^a   Jones, Michael N ^b   Todd, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category fluency; Marginal value theorem; Memory search; Optimal foraging; Semantic space models

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864305549     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027373     Document Type: Article

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