Strategies of source attribution: Semantic features and trace strength as cues to the origin of memories

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-106

  Echterhoff, Gerald ^a   Hussy, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cues; Judgment processes; List discrimination; Memory; Semantic features; Source attribution monitoring; Trace strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342930433     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.63.2.93     Document Type: Article

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