The ring of familiarity: False familiarity due to rhyming primes in item and associative recognition

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 581-595

  Rhodes, Matthew G ^a   Kelley, Colleen M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative recognition; False recognition; Familiarity; Fluency; Memory attributions; Rhyming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037399251     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00534-X     Document Type: Review

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