Immediate Serial Recall, Word Frequency, Item Identity and Item Position

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 408-412

  Poirier, Marie ^a   Saint Aubin, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030345898     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1196-1961.50.4.408     Document Type: Article

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