"Object Categorization: Reversals and Explanations of the Basic-Level Advantage" (Rogers & Patterson, 2007): A simplicity account

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1615-1632

  Close, James ^a   Pothos, Emmanuel M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic level; Categorization; Object recognition; Parallel distributed processing; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84864690448     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.660963     Document Type: Article

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