Inappropriate association of semantics and context to novel stimuli can give rise to the false recognition of unfamiliar people

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 538-549

  Ward, Jamie ^a   Jones, Luke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Faces; False memory; Familiarity; Frontal lobe; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037248562     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00172-0     Document Type: Article

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