Memory indexing: A novel method for tracing memory processes in complex cognitive tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1622-1639

  Renkewitz, Frank ^a   Jahn, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heuristic multiattribute decision making; Looking at nothing; Memory based probabilistic inference; Process tracing; Spatial indexing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874671929     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028073     Document Type: Article

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