The effect of distinctive visual information on false recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Arndt, Jason ^a   Reder, Lynne M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distinctiveness hypothesis; False memory; Perceptual attributes of memory; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037271491     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00518-1     Document Type: Article

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