Word frequency and word likeness mirror effects in episodic recognition memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 826-838

  Heathcote, Andrew ^a   Ditton, Elizabeth ^a   Mitchell, Kristie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ATTENTION LIKELIHOOD THEORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEXICAL MEMORY; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORD LIKENESS MIRROR; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33749646167     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193430     Document Type: Article

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