The distinctiveness heuristic in false recognition and false recall

Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 570-583

  McCabe, David P ^a   Smith, Anderson D ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33745068453     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210600624564     Document Type: Article

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