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Concept Formation

Known as: Concept learning, Formations, Concept, concept development 
A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
All-optical encrypted movie.
We introduce for the first time the concept of an all-optical encrypted movie. This movie joints several encrypted frames… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Inter-organizational continuity of care and the electronic patient record: a concept development.
1996
1996
Unsupervised concept learning and value systematicity: a complex whole aids learning the parts.
Ease of learning new concepts may best be understood by simultaneously considering models of learning and theories of how "good… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Impaired problem solving in Parkinson's disease: Impact of a set-shifting deficit
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Discrimination learning and concept formation in the Arabian horse.
Discrimination learning and concept formation abilities were investigated in four mature Arabian horses. A series of two-choice… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Protected landscapes: a guide for policy-makers and planners. IVth World Congress on National Parks and protected areas, Caracas, Venezuela.
Preface. Foreword. The Lake District declaration. Protected landscapes. Protected landscapes and sustainability. International… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
On the cognitive aspects of the joke
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Slow negative potential shifts indicating verbal cognitive learning in a concept formation task.
It is well-known clinically that patients with left frontal lesions are impaired in their verbal-cognitive learning ability… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Visual classes and natural categories in the pigeon.
  • J. Cerella
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human…
  • 1979
  • Corpus ID: 9920665
After being trained on an oak leaf pattern, pigeons responded to other oak leaf patterns but not to leaf patterns of other… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
A methodological investigation of Piaget's theory of object concept development in the sensory-motor period.
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