On the interpretation of removable interactions: A survey of the field 33 years after Loftus

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-160

  Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^a   Krypotos, Angelos Miltiadis ^a   Criss, Amy H ^b   Iverson, Geoff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Literature review; Measurement scale; Statistics in psychology; Transformations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; STANDARD;

COGNITION DISORDERS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84863562742     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-011-0158-0     Document Type: Article

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