A context noise model of episodic word recognition

Psychological Review

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 452-478

  Dennis, Simon ^a   Humphreys, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 85047686649     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.2.452     Document Type: Article

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