The verbal overshadowing effect: Why descriptions impair face recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 129-139

  Dodson, Chad S ^a,c   Johnson, Marcia K ^a   Schooler, Jonathan W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFUSION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030901267     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201107     Document Type: Article

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