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Verbal Overshadowing Effect: How Temporal Perspective may Exacerbate or Alleviate the Processing Shift

Date

Authors

Hunt, Catherine

Carroll, Marie Vivienne

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Abstract

Generating a detailed, memory-based description of a non-verbal perceptual stimulus can impair later recognition of that stimulus - an effect termed verbal overshadowing (VO). After viewing a face for 10 seconds, half the participants wrote a description

Keywords

Keywords: accuracy; adult; article; controlled study; female; human; human experiment; male; normal human; perception; priority journal; recognition; stimulus; task performance; verbal memory; verbalization

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/29493

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1002/acp.1352

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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