Two fluency heuristics (and how to tell them apart)

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-79

  Whittlesea, Bruce W A ^a   Leboe, Jason P ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Familiarity; Fluency heuristic; Memory; Remembering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038008194     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(03)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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