The empirical case for role-governed categories

Developmental Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 359-376

  Goldwater, Micah B ^a   Markman, Arthur B ^b   Stilwell, C Hunt ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Concepts; Knowledge representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROLE GOVERNED CATEGORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84866948515     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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