A recency-based account of the list length effect in free recall

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 885-892

  Ward, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036755205     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195774     Document Type: Article

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