Memory impairment in the weapon focus effect

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-335

  Saunders, Jo ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLICATION; WEAPON; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; SUGGESTION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION;

EID: 65549105570     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.3.326     Document Type: Article

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