Concreteness effects revisited: The influence of dynamic visual noise on memory for concrete and abstract words

Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 397-410

  Parker, Andrew ^a   Dagnall, Neil ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concreteness effects; Dynamic visual noise; Imagery; Recall; Recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LONG TERM MEMORY; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER TERMINALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68049129770     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210902802967     Document Type: Article

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