Not all sources of familiarity are created equal: The case of word frequency and repetition in episodic recognition

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 791-805

  Coane, Jennifer H ^a   Balota, David A ^b   Jacoby, Larry L ^b   Dolan, Patrick O ^c  

^a Colby College   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mirror effect; Recognition; Recollection; Relative and absolute familiarity; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; HUMANS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 80055057669     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-010-0069-5     Document Type: Article

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