Word frequency and memory: Effects on absolute versus relative order memory and on item memory versus order memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 977-985

  Mulligan, Neil W ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035710241     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195760     Document Type: Article

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