Contextual modulation of attention in human category learning

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 530-541

  George, David N ^a,b   Kruschke, John K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention; Categorization; Context; Human learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84870864809     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-012-0072-8     Document Type: Article

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