Deep levels of processing elicit a distinctiveness heuristic: Evidence from the criterial recollection task

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1095-1111

  Gallo, David A ^a,b   Meadow, Nathaniel G ^c   Johnson, Elizabeth L ^a   Foster, Katherine T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Distinctiveness; False recognition; Levels of processing; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149092977     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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