Abstract Coherent Categories

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1261-1275

  Rehder, Bob ^a   Ross, Brian H ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 85047682582     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.5.1261     Document Type: Article

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