The picture superiority effect in associative recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1351-1359

  Hockley, William E ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 54949110907     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.7.1351     Document Type: Article

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