Earwitness identification performance: The effect of language, target, deliberate strategies and indirect measures

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 539-550

  Philippon, Axelle C ^a   Cherryman, Julie ^a   Bull, Ray ^b   Vrij, Aldert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WITNESS;

EID: 34248358728     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1296     Document Type: Article

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