Accounts of the confidence-accuracy relation in recognition memory

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-48

  Busey, Thomas A ^a   Tunnicliff, Jennifer ^a   Loftus, Geoffrey R ^b   Loftus, Elizabeth F ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISION;

COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034150804     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03210724     Document Type: Article

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