Memory Variability Is Due to the Contribution of Recollection and Familiarity, Not to Encoding Variability

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1536-1542

  Koen, Joshua D ^a   Yonelinas, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual process theory; Encoding variability; Recognition memory; Recollection; Single process theory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249246770     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020448     Document Type: Article

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