Is there an exemplar theory of concepts?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1035-1042

  Murphy, Gregory L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Categorization; Concepts; Induction; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL;

CLASSIFICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84974851053     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0834-3     Document Type: Article

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