The shape of the vocabulary predicts the shape of the bias

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Perry, Lynn K ^a   Samuelson, Larissa K ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Individual differences; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867061705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00345     Document Type: Article

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