Verbal overshadowing effect: How temporal perspective may exacerbate or alleviate the processing shift

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-93

  Hunt, Catherine ^a   Carroll, Marie ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBALIZATION;

EID: 38449116638     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1352     Document Type: Article

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