Deciding with the eye: How the visually manipulated accessibility of information in memory influences decision behavior

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 595-608

  Platzer, Christine ^a   Bröder, Arndt ^a   Heck, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Decision making; Memory; Spatial attention; Visual salience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901004560     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0380-z     Document Type: Article

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