Null category-length and target-lure relatedness effects in episodic recognition: A constraint on item-noise interference models

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1331-1355

  Cho, Kit W ^a   Neely, James H ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Recognition memory; Semantic similarity; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84880040373     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2012.739185     Document Type: Article

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