Word frequency effects on recall, recognition, and word fragment completion tests

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 132-142

  MacLeod, Colin M ^a   Kampe, Kristina E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; RECALL;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0029688263     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.132     Document Type: Article

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