Unsupervised category learning with integral-dimension stimuli

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1537-1562

  Ell, Shawn W ^a   Ashby, F Gregory ^b   Hutchinson, Steven ^a  

^a University of Maine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Feedback based learning; Implicit explicit memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; STUDENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864670125     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.658821     Document Type: Article

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