Advantages and disadvantages of phonological similarity in serial recall and serial recognition of nonwords

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-234

  Lian, Arild ^a   Karlsen, Paul Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY EFFECT; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

EID: 2442651490     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196854     Document Type: Article

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