Delayed matching to sample: The effects of sample-set size on human performance

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 149-161

  Adamson, Coreen ^a   Foster, T Mary ^a   McEwan, James S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Human; Proactive interference; Remembering; Sample set size

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE; SAMPLE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034705449     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00087-5     Document Type: Article

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