The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory

Journal of Forensic Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 271-280

  Marsh, John E ^a   Demaine, Jack ^a   Bell, Raoul ^b   Skelton, Faye C ^c   Frowd, Charlie D ^d   Röer, Jan P ^b   Buchner, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory distraction; Composites; Eyewitness memory; Face recall; Face recognition; Misinformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL COMPOSITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; RECALL; SOUND; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WITNESS;

EID: 84946729778     PISSN: 20508794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0029     Document Type: Article

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