The Role of Semantic Clustering in Optimal Memory Foraging

Cognitive Science

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1925-1939

  Montez, Priscilla ^a   Thompson, Graham ^a   Kello, Christopher T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category recall; Foraging; L vy flights; Marginal value theorem

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84955211771     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: 15516709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12249     Document Type: Article

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