The emergence of item-specific encoding effects in between-subjects designs: Perceptual interference and multiple recall tests

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 375-382

  Mulligan, Neil W ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0036615358     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196296     Document Type: Article

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