Visual similarity at encoding and retrieval in an item recognition task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1277-1284

  Mate, Judit ^a   Baques, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Recognition; Relational processing; Similarity effects; Visual short term memory; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349099895     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802680769     Document Type: Article

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