Journey to the Center of the Category: The Dissociation in Amnesia between Categorization and Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 984-1002

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

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AMNESIA; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047682489     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.4.984     Document Type: Article

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