Comparison promotes learning and transfer of relational categories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1303-1310

  Kurtz, Kenneth J ^a   Boukrina, Olga ^b   Gentner, Dedre ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Category learning; Comparison; Relational categories; Structural alignment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84880678140     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031847     Document Type: Article

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