Slow and steady often ties the race: Effects of item-specific and relational processing on cumulative recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1041-1051

  Burns, Daniel J ^a,b   Schoff, Kristen M ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0032397047     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.24.4.1041     Document Type: Article

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