The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 587-605

  Dennett, Hugh W ^a   McKone, Elinor ^a,b   Tavashmi, Raka ^c   Hall, Ashleigh ^a   Pidcock, Madeleine ^a   Edwards, Mark ^a   Duchaine, Bradley ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Expertise; Face recognition; Object recognition; Sex differences; Within class discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861364399     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-011-0160-2     Document Type: Article

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