Category length produces an inverted-U discriminability function in episodic recognition memory

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1141-1172

  Neely, James H ^a   Tse, Chi Shing ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category length; Recognition memory; Semantic relatedness; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; ROC CURVE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67651249869     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802373035     Document Type: Article

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