The list-length effect does not discriminate between models of recognition memory

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-41

  Annis, Jeffrey ^a,c   Lenes, Joshua Guy ^a   Westfall, Holly A ^a   Criss, Amy H ^b   Malmberg, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; BCDMEM; List length effect; Memory models; Recognition memory; REM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937896865     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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