Inverse MDS: Inferring dissimilarity structure from multiple item arrangements

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus ^a   Mur, Marieke ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multidimensional scaling; Representation; Representational similarity analysis; Similarity; Similarity judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867116191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00245     Document Type: Article

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