Interruption and bizarreness effects in the recall of script-based text

Memory

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 217-234

  Davidson, Denise ^a   Larson, Shari L ^a   Luo, Zupei ^a   Burden, Matthew J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RATING SCALE; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033948657     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096582100406784     Document Type: Article

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