Recognition memory for novel stimuli: The structural regularity hypothesis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 379-393

  Cleary, Anne M ^a   Morris, Alison L ^b   Langley, Moses M ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrepancy attribution; False positive responses; Fluency; Mirror effect; Novelty; Old new discrimination; Pseudoword effect; Recognition memory; Structural regularity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33947547529     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.2.379     Document Type: Article

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