"Oh, I Remember Now!": Facilitating Children's Long-Term Memory for Events

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-15

  Hudson, Judith A ^a   Gillam, Ronald B ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Encoding; Event memory; Facilitating factors; Language complexity; Long term memory; Retrieval; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031329722     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-199711000-00003     Document Type: Review

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