The effect of divided attention on false memory depends on how memory is tested

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 660-667

  Dewhurst, Stephen A ^a,c   Barry, Christopher ^b   Swannell, Ellen R ^a   Holmes, Selina J ^a   Bathurst, Gemma L ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34547875723     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193304     Document Type: Article

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