Incidental formation of episodic associations: The importance of sentential context

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 306-316

  Prior, Anat ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037366875     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194389     Document Type: Article

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