Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1483-1501

  Ecker, Ullrich K H ^a   Zimmer, Hubert D ^a,b   Groh Bordin, Christian ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 35748935236     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193618     Document Type: Article

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