Conjunction errors, recollection-based rejections, and forgetting in a continuous recognition task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 70-78

  Jones, Todd C ^a   Atchley, Paul ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjunction errors; Familiarity; Memory; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 33244488723     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.1.70     Document Type: Article

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