A beautiful day in the neighborhood: What factors determine the generation effect for simple multiplication problems?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 106-115

  Pesta, Bryan J ^a,b,c   Sanders, Raymond E ^a   Murphy, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033057028     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201217     Document Type: Article

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