Knowing what to remember and forget: A developmental study of cue memory in intentional forgetting

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 860-868

  Lehman, Elyse Brauch ^a,b   Morath, Ray ^a   Franklin, Karen ^a   Elbaz, Veronique ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 4400 University Dr ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0031756612     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201169     Document Type: Article

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