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Concept Formation (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Concept Formation'
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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 ...
rec_pub_19397383-empty-sets-numerical-continuum-conceptual-precursors-zero-concept.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19397386-segmentation-reading-film-comprehension.htm
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 ...
rec_pub_19379049-strategies-revising-judgment-people-use-opinions.htm
29 Apr 2009 Repetition priming is often thought to reflect the facilitation of 1 or more processes engaged during initial and subsequent presentations of a stimulus. Priming can also reflect the formation of direct, stimulus-response (S-R) bindings, retrieval ...
rec_pub_19379048-bindings-stimuli-multiple-response-codes-dominate-long-lag-repetition.htm
Perceive-decide-act, perceive-decide-act: how abstract is repetition-related decision learning?
29 Apr 2009 Recent encounters with a stimulus often facilitate or "prime" future responses to the same or similar stimuli. However, studies are inconclusive as to whether changing the response that is required attenuates priming only for identical stimuli, or ...
rec_pub_19379047-perceive-decide-act-perceive-decide-act-abstract-repetition-related.htm
Learning mode and exemplar sequencing in unsupervised category learning.
29 Apr 2009 
Exemplar sequencing effects in incidental and intentional unsupervised category learning were investigated to illuminate how people form categories without an external teacher. Stimuli were perfectly separable into 2 categories based on 1 of 2 ...
rec_pub_19379046-learning-mode-exemplar-sequencing-unsupervised-category-learning.htm
Causal reasoning: the 'magical number' three.
29 Apr 2009 
rec_pub_19415073-causal-reasoning-magical-number-three.htm
Changes in the self: the need for conceptual research next to empirical research.
29 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19396686-changes-self-need-conceptual-research-empirical-research.htm
Contribution of prior semantic knowledge to new episodic learning in amnesia.
29 Apr 2009 We evaluated whether prior semantic knowledge would enhance episodic learning in amnesia. Subjects studied prices that are either congruent or incongruent with prior price knowledge for grocery and household items and then performed a forced-choice ...
rec_pub_18702596-contribution-prior-semantic-knowledge-new-episodic-learning-amnesia.htm
22 Apr 2009 Historians and philosophers of science have furnished a wide array of theoretical-historiographical terms to emphasize the discontinuities among different systems of knowledge. Some of the most famous include Thomas Kuhn's "paradigm", Michel ...
rec_pub_19442926-rethinking-style-historians-philosophers-science-converging-lessons.htm
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