The novelty effect: Support for the novelty-encoding hypothesis

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-143

  Kormi Nouri, Reza ^a,b   Nilsson, Lars Göran ^b   Ohta, Nobuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

False alarm; Familiar item; Hit rate; Incidental encoding; Long term memory; Novel item; Novelty Encoding Hypothesis; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SWEDEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SWEDEN; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 15744367836     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2005.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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