Averting the gaze disengages the environment and facilitates remembering

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 651-658

  Glenberg, Arthur M ^a,b   Schroeder, Jennifer L ^a   Robertson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY;

EID: 0031879213     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211385     Document Type: Article

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