Comparing Prototype-Based and Exemplar-Based Accounts of Category Learning and Attentional Allocation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 275-292

  Minda, John Paul ^a   Smith, J David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 85047674492     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.28.2.275     Document Type: Article

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