Unsupervised categorisation and cross-classification in humans and rats

This thesis examines how stimulus similarity structure and the statistical properties of the environment influence human and nonhuman animal categorisation. Two aspects of categorisation behaviour are explored: unsupervised (spontaneous) categorisation and stimulus cross-classification. In my Genera...

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Main Author: Close, James Owen Edward
Published: Cardiff University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584659