Contextual Variability and Serial Position Effects in Free Recall

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 923-941

  Howard, Marc W ^a   Kahana, Michael J ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SEMANTICS; TIME;

CUES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033158410     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.25.4.923     Document Type: Article

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