Visual similarity effects in immediate verbal serial recall

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 626-646

  Logie, Robert H ^a   Della Sala, Sergio ^a   Wynn, Val ^a   Baddeley, Alan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SERIAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041037866     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713755916     Document Type: Article

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