Word length and articulatory suppression affect short-term and long-term recall tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 728-737

  Russo, Riccardo ^a   Grammatopoulou, Nicoletta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042161563     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196111     Document Type: Article

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