Eye movements reveal memory processes during similarity- and rule-based decision making

Cognition

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 228-246

  Scholz, Agnes ^a,b   von Helversen, Bettina ^b   Rieskamp, Jörg ^b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Eye movements; Looking at nothing; Multi cue decision making; Process tracing; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; WORK EXPERIENCE; ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916618582     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.019     Document Type: Article

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