Prior experience and complex procedures

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 381-394

  Dixon, Peter ^a   Zimmerman, Corinne ^a   Nearey, Siobhan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030972238     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211294     Document Type: Article

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