Comparisons in Category Learning: How Best to Compare for What

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1388-1393

  Higgins, Erin Jones ^a   Ross, Brian H ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

category learning; comparisons; problem solving

Indexed keywords

CATEGORY LEARNING; COMPARISON; LEARN+; PROBLEM-SOLVING;

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