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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Empty sets as part of the numerical continuum: conceptual precursors to the zero concept in rhesus monkeys.

29 Apr 2009 The goal of the current research was to explore whether monkeys possess conceptual precursors necessary for understanding zero. We trained rhesus monkeys on a nonsymbolic numerical matching-to-sample task, and on a numerical ordering task. We then ... Read more...

Segmentation in reading and film comprehension.

29 Apr 2009 When reading a story or watching a film, comprehenders construct a series of representations in order to understand the events depicted. Discourse comprehension theories and a recent theory of perceptual event segmentation both suggest that ... Read more...

Strategies for revising judgment: how (and how well) people use others' opinions.

29 Apr 2009 A basic issue in social influence is how best to change one's judgment in response to learning the opinions of others. This article examines the strategies that people use to revise their quantitative estimates on the basis of the estimates of ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Concept Formation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Quality in health care--what does it mean actually?] 26 May 2009
• Empty sets as part of the numerical continuum: conceptual precursors to the zero concept in rhesus monkeys. 29 Apr 2009
• Segmentation in reading and film comprehension. 29 Apr 2009
• Strategies for revising judgment: how (and how well) people use others' opinions. 29 Apr 2009
• Bindings between stimuli and multiple response codes dominate long-lag repetition priming in speeded classification tasks. 29 Apr 2009
• Perceive-decide-act, perceive-decide-act: how abstract is repetition-related decision learning? 29 Apr 2009
• Learning mode and exemplar sequencing in unsupervised category learning. 29 Apr 2009
• Causal reasoning: the 'magical number' three. 29 Apr 2009
• Changes in the self: the need for conceptual research next to empirical research. 29 Apr 2009
• Contribution of prior semantic knowledge to new episodic learning in amnesia. 29 Apr 2009
• Reprinted from The British Journal of Psychology (1928), 18, 276-301: La causalité chez l'enfant (Children's understanding of causality). 30 Mar 2009
• Piaget on causality: The Whig interpretation of cognitive development. 30 Mar 2009
• Piaget on piaget. 30 Mar 2009
• Evaluative conditioning may incur attentional costs. 30 Mar 2009
• Human judgments of positive and negative causal chains. 30 Mar 2009
• What is pressure? Evidence for social pressure as a type of regulatory focus. 30 Mar 2009
• How many exemplars are used? Explorations with the Rex Leopold I model. 30 Mar 2009
• Beyond nonutilization: irrelevant cues can gate learning in probabilistic categorization. 30 Mar 2009
• The role of learning data in causal reasoning about observations and interventions. 30 Mar 2009
• Making sense of nonsense in British Sign Language (BSL): The contribution of different phonological parameters to sign recognition. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Concept Formation'

Definition: A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects.

Descriptor UI: D003210

Alternative terms: Concept Formation; Concept Formations; Formation, Concept; Formations, Concept;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.785.233;