Visual similarity effects on short-term memory for order: The case of verbally labeled pictorial stimuli

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 711-723

  Poirier, Marie ^a   Saint Aubin, Jean ^b   Musselwhite, Karen ^a   Mohanadas, Thulasi ^a   Mahammed, Ghuson ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34547911740     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193309     Document Type: Article

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