Basic Information Processing Effects from Perceptual Learning in Complex, Real-World Domains

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 555-560

  Thai, Khanh Phuong ^a   Mettler, Everett ^a   Kellman, Philip J ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; educational technology; perceptual learning; visual search

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

CATEGORIZATION; CHINESE CHARACTERS; LEARNING EFFECTS; LEARNING GAIN; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PROCESSING EFFECTS; REAL WORLD DOMAIN; REAL-WORLD; RECENT RESEARCHES; VISUAL SEARCH;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84872742122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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