Categories and range effects in human spatial memory

After learning a particular target stimulus, such as a location, humans’ judgements of whether a particular stimulus is the target or not is affected by the range of stimuli presented on tests. In such frequently found range effects, the peak of yes responses shifts toward the middle of the range of...

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Main Authors: Ken eCheng, Marcia eSpetch, Andros eHoan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00231/full