Positive and negative generation effects, hypermnesia, and total recall time

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1044-1053

  Mulligan, Neil W ^a   Duke, Marquinn D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; CUES; HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 0036817746     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194322     Document Type: Article

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