Eyewitness recognition errors: The effects of mugshot viewing and choosing in young and old adults

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1219-1227

  Memon, Amina ^a   Hope, Lorraine ^a   Bartlett, James ^b   Bull, Ray ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY; WITNESS;

EID: 0036929123     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03213404     Document Type: Article

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