The effects of local and global processing orientation on eyewitness identification performance

Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 784-798

  Perfect, Timothy J ^a   Dennis, Ian ^a   Snell, Amelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL BIAS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ODDS RATIO; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35248888940     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701654627     Document Type: Article

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