The effects of stimulus set size and word frequency on verbal serial recall

Memory

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 71-78

  Roodenrys, Steven ^a   Quinlan, Philip T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0034120246     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096582100387623     Document Type: Article

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