Effecte of number of items and visual display variability on same-different discrimination behavior

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1689-1703

  Castro, Leyre ^a   Young, Michael E ^b   Wasserman, Edward A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ENTROPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247247087     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195931     Document Type: Article

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