Individual Differences in Holistic Processing Predict the Own-Race Advantage in Recognition Memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  DeGutis, Joseph ^a,b   Mercado, Rogelio J ^c   Wilmer, Jeremy ^d   Rosenblatt, Andrew ^a  

^a GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOLISTIC PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECALL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876036653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058253     Document Type: Article

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