False Recognition Occurs More Frequently during Source Identification Than during Old-New Recognition

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 375-383

  Hicks, Jason L ^a   Marsh, Richard L ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; REPRESSION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0035290354     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.2.375     Document Type: Article

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