Remembered instructions with symbolic and perceptual comparisons

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-189

  Petrusic, William M ^a   Shaki, Samuel ^a,b   Leth Steensen, Craig ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SYMBOLISM;

EID: 42949100467     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.2.179     Document Type: Article

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