Progressive Alignment Facilitates Learning of Deterministic But Not Probabilistic Relational Categories

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2643-2648

  Jung, Wookyoung ^a   Hummel, John E ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

deterministic category structure; probabilistic category structure; progressive alignment; Relational category learning; relational invariants

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC CATEGORY STRUCTURE; DETERMINISTICS; HIGH-ORDER; LEARN+; PROBABILISTIC CATEGORY STRUCTURE; PROBABILISTICS; PROGRESSIVE ALIGNMENT; RELATIONAL CATEGORY LEARNING; RELATIONAL INVARIANT; RELATIONAL SIMILARITIES;

EID: 84926511641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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