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Age-Related Degree and Criteria Differences in Semantic Categorization

Journal of Cognition
Volume 2 (2019): Issue 1
By: Steven Verheyen,  Elisabeth Droeshout and  Gert Storms  
Open Access
|Jul 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.74 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 31, 2019
Accepted on: Jun 14, 2019
Published on: Jul 19, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Ageing,
Categorisation,
Mathematical modelling,
Semantics

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