Concept and category learning in humans

Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 535-556

  Ross, B H ^a   Taylor, E G ^a   Middleton, E L ^a   Nokes, T J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Category; Category learning; Classification; Concept; Count mass nouns; Exemplar models; Inference learning; Problem solving; Prototypes; Relational structure; Similarity; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85089761339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012370509-9.00139-X     Document Type: Chapter

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