When the brain decides: A familiarity-based approach to the recognition heuristic as evidenced by event-related brain potentials

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1527-1534

  Rosburg, Timm ^a   Mecklinger, Axel ^a   Frings, Christian ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

decision making; event related potentials; memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055181987     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417454     Document Type: Article

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