Associative recognition and the list strength paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 583-594

  Osth, Adam F ^a   Dennis, Simon ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Memory models; Mirror; Recognition; Word frequency effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901004878     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0386-6     Document Type: Article

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