Item Recognition Memory and the Receiver Operating Characteristic

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1210-1230

  Heathcote, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; ROC CURVE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0344719502     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.29.6.1210     Document Type: Article

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