On the Nature of Associative Information in Recognition Memory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 701-722

  Kelley, Robert ^a   Wixted, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; ROC CURVE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROC CURVE; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 85047686598     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.3.701     Document Type: Article

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