Order Information and Retrieval Distinctiveness: Recall of Common Versus Bizarre Material

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1045-1056

  McDaniel, Mark A ^a   Delosh, Edward L ^b   Merritt, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0034219283     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.4.1045     Document Type: Article

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