When false recognition is out of control: The case of facial conjunctions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-157

  Jones, Todd C ^a   Bartlett, James C ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FACE; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; ATTENTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 65549165965     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.2.143     Document Type: Article

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