Sequence-sensitive exemplar and decision-bound accounts of speeded-classification performance in a modified Garner-tasks paradigm

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-38

  Little, Daniel R ^a   Wang, Tony ^a,b   Nosofsky, Robert M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Exemplars vs decision bounds; Integrality; Response times; Sequence effects; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84984829471     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.07.001     Document Type: Article

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