An Analysis of Errors in the Learning, Overlearning, and Forgetting of Sequences

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 341-356

  Lansdale, Mark ^a   How, Tan Tarn ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030140051     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755620     Document Type: Article

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