The power law as an emergent property
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 29 (7) , 1061-1068
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03195767
Abstract
Recent work has shown that the power function, a ubiquitous characteristic of learning, memory, and sensation, can emerge from the arithmetic averaging of exponential curves. In the present study,...Keywords
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